Category: Features

Quartets and Canaries: The Wild, Sexy, Scary World of Radley Metzger

  • March 27, 2013

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I always relish a challenge, and so when our esteemed editor here at This Is Horror asked me if I might be able to write an article concentrating on the more horror-oriented aspects of the work of highly respected erotic movie auteur Radley Metzger, I jumped at the chance. Three of Metzger’s earlier adult works …

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Wanting The Dusk: escaping the nine to five

  • March 26, 2013

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I seem doomed to keep breaking my pledges where this column’s concerned. The first instalment of Heretic Songs was back in September, and I said I’d see you next month; after which, nothing more until February. In that instalment, I pledged to talk next about the role of supernatural horror fiction when religious belief wasn’t …

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A Dreadful Fear of Clichés

  • March 13, 2013

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I have a confession. There are a few (well, many) horror tropes that I just cannot stomach at all. Not because they’re cliché – although, of course, they are – but because there’s something about them that’s actually, fundamentally, terrifying. Keep on reading…

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International Women’s Day: Women of Horror

  • March 8, 2013

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To coincide with International Women’s Day we’re celebrating just some of the brilliant women who make horror what it is today. Keep on reading…

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