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This Is Horror Awards 2017: Vote Now!

This Is Horror Awards

It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2017 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2017’. To cast a vote simply write the category and your vote for each award. You may vote for your top two in each category. For example: Award 1. First choice 2. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 9 February 2018

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from Crystal Lake, Darren Speegle’s Varying Distances Released today through Crystal Lake Publishing is the short story collection Varying Distance by Darren Speegle, author of Adam’s Ladder and The Third Twin. The collection features twelve tales, with …

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Book Review: Speculations by Joe McKinney

Speculations by Joe McKinney - cover

“Whether it is horror of a supernatural nature or real-life horror, this collection has it all. Joe McKinney skillfully weaves entertaining, thought-provoking, character-driven stories that will take hold of the reader’s imagination – and not let go.” Nominated for four Bram Stoker awards, winning two (2014 for Superior Achievement in a YA Novel for Dog Days …

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 Ferbuary 2018

HELL CANDIDATE

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Graham Masterton’s classic political horror The Hell Candidate to be brought back into print by Telos Publishing Graham Masterton’s 1982 political horror, written to coincide with the Reagan presidency is being revived and re-released by Telos …

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News Round-up Week Ending 26 January 2018

Bungalow_house

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Thomas Ligotti’s The Bungalow House available for pre-order on limited edtion LP Read by Jon Padgett (The Secret of Ventriloquism), Thomas Ligotti’s story, The Bungalow House,  is chillingly brought to life on a new limited edition LP. The …

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In Memoriam: Dallas Mayr 1946- 2018

Jack Ketchum - author

  Horror lost one of the greats yesterday. Dallas Mayr, more commonly known as Jack Ketchum, passed away 24 January 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Author of several novels including Off Season, Red, The Girl Next Door, Offspring, and the short-story collection Peaceable Kingdom, Ketchum’s work has been adapted for the screen and …

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News Round-up Week Ending 19 January 2018

Phantom Limbs

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Phantom Limbs, the new short story collection from Margo Lanagan, available for pre-order now Released through PS Publishing Australia, Phantom Limbs is the new short story collection from Australian author Margo Lanagan. Already garnering praise from a variety …

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News Round-up Week Ending 12 January 2018

Broken Shells - Digital

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Broken Shells, from Michael Patrick Hicks, out 6 February On 6 February, the new novella, Broken Shells, from dark fiction writer Michael Patrick Hicks (Convergence, The Marque) is released through High Fever Books. The novella is a story …

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News Round-up Week Ending 5 January 2018

Gathering-evil

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … A Gathering of Evil, out now from Comet Press Written by Gil Valle, author of 2017’s Raw Deal, and renowned as the ‘Cannibal Cop’ after his wrongful arrest by federal agents for plotting to kidnap, kill and …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 December 2017

October Dreams 2

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from Cemetery Dance, October Dreams II: A Celebration of Halloween As a follow up to one of Cemetery Dance’s most successful anthologies – and one of the most acclaimed Halloween themed anthologies from anyone, Richard Chizmar and …

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