Category: News

News Round-up Week Ending 18 January

Grimm Up North Double Bills Grimm Up North bring January to a close with a trio of excellent double bills in Manchester. They include Texas Chainsaw Massacre  and Last House on the Left on 23 January, Towerblock and Hollow on 26 January and Mon Ami and Chop on 31 January. Tickets are available from the Grimm Up North website. We Are Monsters Takes Shape US …

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Interview: Simon Maginn

What first attracted you to horror writing? I think the thing that first really grabbed my attention was The Amityville Horror (1979). I’d be about eighteen, and I was deeply fascinated by the dark house, the bad place: the grim outline on the hill in Psycho, the labyrinthine nightmare of Gormenghast, the abandoned pier in …

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News Round-up Week Ending 11 January

New Lansdale Novella Joe Lansdale has signed up with Dark Regions Press to produce a novella for the Black Labyrinth series. Lansdale will produce an original novella of psychological horror that will be available to order on the Dark Regions website on 12 November. More Lovecraft on DVD Second Sight Films have announced that Stuart Gordon’s …

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Pre-order The Fox by Conrad Williams

They took their daughters to a glamping farm to escape the stresses of the city. There were chickens to feed, logs to chop and a fire to keep stoked. For a day it was fun to reconvene with nature and connect with what it meant to be wild. But on that first night a blizzard …

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News Round-up Week Ending 4 January

Dead Space 3

Dead Space 3 Download Visceral Games have announced that the new Dead Space 3 demo will be available to download on XBOX LIVE on 22 January. The game is released in full on 5 February on Xbox 360 and 8 February on Playstation 3 and PC. New Evil Dead Trailer Surfaces The brand new red-band …

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Buy chapbooks and win an annual subscription

This Is Horror chapbook trilogy

On 18 December we announced that anyone buying a This Is Horror chapbook up until 11 January would be entered into a prize draw to win an annual subscription to the This Is Horror Premium Chapbooks. Well we’re delighted that so many of you have taken up this fantastic opportunity and have decided to extend …

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This Is Horror Awards 2012: Two hours left to vote

There’s still time to vote in the This Is Horror Awards, but hurry there’s less than two hours. Vote in the This Is Horror Awards 2012

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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 3 January 2012

Silent Hill Nurse

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: The top ten horror-themed music videos of 2012 A deep, dark Silent Hill franchise retrospective 6 health benefits of watching horror movies Bruce Campbell: Heroes and Inspirations The …

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News Round-up Week Ending 28 December

Robert Lloyd Parry plans a fantastic 2013 Fans of M.R. James will be thrilled to learn that the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry has announced a number of exciting ventures for the New Year. There will be a short run of shows in London, Cambridge and Bristol in January in addition to the release of a …

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Interview: Paul Johnson

Tattooing professionally since 2008, Paul’s love of horror, comic books and sci-fi has greatly inspired his work – ranging from fantastic realism to his own cartoon-style designs. Keep on reading…

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