Category: Features

Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick and Ceremony Of Flies by Kate Jonez

July 1, 2014
5 mins to read

Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick “ A mixture of old school episodic storytelling and modern techniques reminiscent of found-footage films.” “There’s a place, out in North Wales, where things have happened. Bad things, strange things. Dark things. At the heart of it there’s a mountain, and they call it Mynydd Du: Black …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 June 2014

June 30, 2014
3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: A Brief History of Canadian Horror on Film The Art-Horror Film: Genius or Pretentious? 8-Bit Terror: Nintendo’s Horror Games That Inspired a Thriving Subgenre Love Horror’s Six Greatest Givers of Gore What …

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Less is More: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

June 26, 2014
8 mins to read

This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …

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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle and Touched by Joanna Briscoe

June 24, 2014
5 mins to read

Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!” When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …