Category: Reviews

Film Review: Birth of the Living Dead (2014)

  • June 10, 2014

  • 7 mins to read

“An infectious movie that will compel you to spread it from person to person until the whole world is consumed by it.” It is completely unarguable that writer/director George A. Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead is one of the greatest and most important horror films ever made. So revered is it that every legendary …

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Book Review: Searchers After Horror Edited by ST Joshi

  • May 14, 2014

  • 7 mins to read

“Excellent new anthology of consistently superb modern weird tales!” It’s always a pleasure to see a new anthology of weird fiction from Fedogan and Bremer, and doubly so when it has been put together by S T Joshi, an editor with an unparalleled track record within the genre. Searchers After Horror contains twenty one strange …

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Book Review: The Unquiet House by Alison Littlewood

  • May 13, 2014

  • 5 mins to read

“Littlewood has the ability to make you care for characters within only a handful of pages!” The Unquiet House is Alison Littlewood’s third novel. It is also her most complex, with a multi-stranded narrative covering three distinct time periods with several brave choices which may mean it will be her most divisive and discussed story …

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Book Review: Cold Turkey by Carole Johnstone

  • May 9, 2014

  • 4 mins to read

“Nightmarishly disturbing!” Carole Johnstone’s Cold Turkey is the third in a series of beautifully presented novellas published by TTA Press of Black Static, Interzone and Crimewave fame. There’s little doubting Johnstone’s credentials as an author – as well as writing for the UK’s premier literary horror magazine, her work has been featured in Ellen Datlow’s …

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