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This Is Horror Awards 2012 – Public Nominations Are Open

September 3, 2012
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Last year the This Is Horror Awards 2011 were a great success – we received votes from across the world and were fortunate enough to have our Awards covered in a multitude of media. This year we’re back and the awards will be bigger and better than ever. The first stage of the This Is …

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News Round-up Week Ending 31 August

September 3, 2012
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Dexter Early Cuts: All in the Family animated web series The webisodes are narrated by Michael C. Hall (who plays Dexter in the popular television series), illustrated by David Mack and written by the producer of Dexter Scott Reynolds. They tell important stories from Dexter’s history. The eerie Dexter soundtrack and Michael C. Hall’s narration will definitely …

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Meet The Writer: Joe Mynhardt

August 30, 2012
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Joe Mynhardt is a South African horror writer and teacher. He has dozens of short stories publications, and also tends to a tome of stories, comics, plays and movies scrapping for a chance to be written. Read more…

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Ramsey Campbell, Gary McMahon, Simon Bestwick and Conrad Williams – Live in Manchester

August 29, 2012
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We are incredibly pleased to announce that on Saturday September 22 we will celebrate the launch of our second chapbook Thin Men with Yellow Faces by Gary McMahon and Simon Bestwick with a very special event. The launch event will be taking place at MadLab in Manchester from 6:30pm and will run through to approximately 8:15pm. …

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3 Must Read Horror Articles

August 27, 2012
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This week on Must Read Horror Articles: A Buyer’s Guide to… The New Wave of French Horror When Worlds Collide: Sci-Fi and Horror Films Top 10 Asian Horror Films you have never heard of If you want more useful links like the must read horror articles we highlight every week, then please follow @ThisIsHorror on Twitter. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 24 August 2012

August 24, 2012
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Stephen King and Joe Hill collaboration novella to be released soon Stephen King and Joe Hill will have their ebook collaboration In the Tall Grass published by Scribner in October 2012. The story begins with a brother and sister who hear a young boy crying for help in some tall grass to the side of the …

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Winners: HP Lovecraft’s Chill

August 20, 2012
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Continuing the Lovecraft birthday celebrations, here are the winners of our HP Lovecraft competition. Each will receive a copy of Chill. Winners: David Lees, Mike Roth, Jennifer Griffin, David McWilliam and James Mathurin We will be contacting each of you shortly and sending out the DVDs. Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to …

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4 Must Read Horror Articles

August 20, 2012
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This week on Must Read Horror Articles: The Horror of British TV Comedies [Remember This?] Spielberg Dumps JoBeth Williams in a Pool with Real Skeletons in Poltergeist Colin Harvey – one year on Discovery of M.R. James story gives chidden chance to write ghostly ending If you want more useful links like the must read …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 August 2012

August 17, 2012
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Wayne Simmons and David Moody signing tour Wayne Simmons and David Moody have announced that they will be going on a signing tour across the country from August to December. “Wayne and I have become something of a double-act at signings and events”, says David Moody, “So much so that Waterstones have started spreading the …

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RIP Harry Harrison: 12 March 1925 – 15 August 2012

August 15, 2012
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So many individuals have had significant impact and influence upon our lives that it’s easy for the importance of those who have disappeared from our minds to dim and fade away. I hadn’t thought about Harry Harrison for many years – not in any meaningful sense, anyway – until this morning when I heard of …