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Look Out For … Chalk by Paul Cornell

Look Out For … Chalk by Paul Cornell “A dark tale of bullying, vengeance and magic that wallows in the murkier side of nostalgia that the likes of Stranger Things only hint at.” Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with the losers in his school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies — led …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 March 2017

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Bill Paxton’s Incredible relationship With Horror 30 Years Of Dream Warriors: The Freddy That Almost Was Interview With Chantal Noordeloos TV Slashers: They Shouldn’t Work But They Do Horror …

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News Round-up Week Ending 3 March 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … PS Publishing’s Australian arm sees first release Dreaming in the Dark Edited by Jack Dann and featuring twenty-two stories of speculative fiction of all sub-genres, Dreaming in the Dark is the first release from PS Publishing’s new Australian venture. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 24 February 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Horror collection Twisted 50 ready for haunting audiobook release What could be scarier than fifty stories of terror, leaping off the page into the reader’s imagination? How about having fifty expert narrators reading each one to you …

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Tattered Tomes: William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, Revisited

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The late William Peter Blatty’s masterpiece, The Exorcist, is a foundation of modern horror fiction. The film was my first experience with the story, albeit a censored version broadcast on television for the first time. I’d seen the book at the library, the paperback tattered and torn, spine-cracked and dog-eared, yet for some reason, I …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 February 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Special edition of Josh Malerman’s Bird Box to be released through Dark Regions Press First published in 2014, Josh Malerman’s Bird Box received glowing praise, as it told the story of a woman rowing her two children …

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News Round-up Week Ending 10 February 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Crystal Lake to release Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest collection Crystal Lake publishing have announced what may be the broadest ever collection of short fiction and poetry on the topic of the mutant rain forest. Edited …

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News Round-up Week Ending 3 February 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … Shut In, starring Oscar nominee Naomi Watts gets VOD, DVD & Blu-Ray release Naomi Watts stars as Mary, a child psychologist who must find out what happened to a patient who has disappeared, in …

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News Round-up Week Ending 27 January 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … Nicholas Pesce’s The Eyes of my Mother to be realeased in UK cinemas 24 March The critically acclaimed and long awaited The Eyes of my Mother has finally been scheduled for a UK-wide general release on 24 …

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News Round-up Week Ending 20 January 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … British genre film Cruel Summer set for DVD and VOD release Cruel Summer is the harrowing story of a group of three young people, led by an out-of-control boy with a thirst for violent revenge, Nicholas, …

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