“Inoffensive enough to ingratiate itself with its celluloid brethren.” Newlyweds Cory (Dunne) and stepmother Sarah (Isabelle) take their son Liam (DaCunha) to their second home in the country for some much needed family bonding time. Liam is still struggling to come to terms with the loss of his mother and resents Sarah taking her place. …
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“Leytonstone is another triumph.” For many readers, Stephen Volk’s Whitstable was one of the books of 2013, a gripping, affectionate and moving portrayal of Peter Cushing’s twilight years. Now Volk has written a spiritual sequel in Leytonstone, a novella about the early life of Alfred Hitchcock. If you’re reading this review simply to find out …
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“Marvellous interviews – well worth a look” Rowman and Littlefield, publishers of high class academic texts at even higher prices, have added a new title to their Studies in Supernatural Literature series. Previous volumes have dealt with specific authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Lord Dunsany and H P Lovecraft. Disorders of Magnitude (that’s a great …
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“Not great, but creepy enough to be effective.” Possession movies are ten a penny these days, with Hollywood churning out exorcism films like pasta. Every so often, one comes along that doesn’t stick to the tried and tested routines and resultantly appears like a fresh piece of fruit in a bowl of decay. Deliver Us …
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“The Year’s Best Weird Fiction triumphantly lives up to its title.” The Year’s Best Weird Fiction is a new annual anthology; this inaugural volume contains two introductions, twenty-two stories and runs to 125k words in its attempts to sum up what ‘weird fiction’ is. As interesting as the introductions are, the weird is perhaps better …
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“The End is further proof that McMahon is approaching the top of his game as a writer.” Gary McMahon’s latest novel The End is an apocalyptic thriller, which documents a bizarre suicide plague as it strikes London and takes a grip on the nation’s capital. The story centres on Mac Booth and his small group …
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“One of the best single author collections of recent years!” Burnt Black Suns is the latest collection of short fiction from Canadian author Simon Strantzas. Strantzas is well known to British readers through the Shadows Edge anthology he edited for Gray Friar Press and his inclusion in numerous volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best …
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“These stories continually amaze and beguile!” Helen Marshall is a Canadian poet and short story writer; Gifts For The One Who Comes After is her second collection of short fiction, after the highly acclaimed Hair Side Flesh Side, both published by ChiZine. Marshall’s work is fantastical and surreal, with similarities to that of writers like …
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“Dark, disturbing and visceral.” After releasing his superb Autumn novel back in 2001 David Moody became known as the premier British zombie writer, which is no bad thing given his innovative and intelligent take on the genre, but as he’s been keen to display in the last few years, there’s much more to Moody than …
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“The Purge: Anarchy is a natural expansion of the first film which unfortunately proves too unwieldy for the director to keep a hold of!” The Purge: Anarchy is the new film from James DeMonaco and is the follow-up to the 2013 hit, The Purge. As with the original film, the central concept remains; for a …
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