Category: Features

Remakes: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly

  • April 19, 2013

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Remakes of beloved horror films are all the rage in Hollywood and, unfortunately, most of them are bad. Really bad. However, with the release this week of the remake of the iconic Evil Dead looking like it may buck the trend, we at This Is Horror sat down round a very big, gothic table and …

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The ‘I’ in Horror

  • April 17, 2013

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Writers of great horror don’t hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm. Settings may be familiar, but somehow they are also warped. ‘Natural’ elements are inevitably of the ‘un’ or ‘super’ variety. Plots are designed to unnerve. In horror, the …

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Australia’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: New South Wales

  • April 4, 2013

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The oldest state in Australia, New South Wales, was the site of the first landing by the British in 1788. Eleven ships of the First Fleet set sail from Britain on 13 May 1787, with the leading ship, HMS Supply, reaching Botany Bay and setting up camp on the Kurnell Peninsula on 18 January 1788. …

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The importance of a life outside genre

  • April 3, 2013

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I have often talked about what being an editor and publisher means, mostly in terms of the mechanics involved in the job and the prerequisites needed. A good command of English, an understanding of narrative and how stories work, as well as a huge dollop of good old common sense, are absolute necessities, as are …

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