Category: Reviews

Path of Needles by Alison Littlewood

June 26, 2013
1 mins to read

Alison Littlewood burst into the mainstream when her debut novel, A Cold Season, was selected as part of Richard and Judy’s 2012 Book Club and found itself in supermarket aisles and bookshop window displays. It was a supremely paced and engrossing book with an exemplary sense of atmosphere and location, but, Path of Needles is …

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The Ravenglass Eye by Tom Fletcher

June 26, 2013
1 mins to read

If we here at This Is Horror composed our copy with quill and parchment or typewriter and paper, then the discarded attempts at reviewing The Ravenglass Eye would have required a fleet of bin lorries to transport them away. The novel provides a satisfying and gripping narrative but putting your finger on precisely why it …

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Joyland by Stephen King

June 18, 2013
1 mins to read

If you judged this latest novel from the master, Stephen King, solely on the originality and complexity of the murder mystery at the centre of its storyline, then your verdict would probably be along the lines of; “I’ve read better crime stories and this one was a little too obvious.” But, Stephen King’s finest works …

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Black Sabbath (1963)

June 17, 2013
1 mins to read

One of the most praised and appreciated of all anthology horror films, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (I Tre Volti Della Paura in its native Italy) came about partly because of the huge success of AIP’s Tales of Terror (1960), which presented three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by Roger Corman. Sidney Salkow’s Twice …