Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …

New release, The Mourner’s Cradle: A Widow’s Journey, by Tommy B. Smith coming 14 September from Crystal Lake Publishing

Damon Sharpe had, he believed, found a long lost truth he had obsessed over for a long time. Six months later he was dead, leaving his widow to journey into a long dead civilisation, to find that truth or die trying. The novel has been likened to the work of Dean Koontz, John Langan and Daphne Du Maurier and will be released through Crystal Lake Publishing on 14 September. You can pre-order your copy now, here.

Grimmfest returns to Manchester 4 – 7 October for it’s tenth anniversary edition

Grimmfest, Manchester’s horror film festival, returns to The Odeon Manchester Great Northern on 4 October, with a preview screening event at the Plaza Cinema, Stockport on 1 October. The full program has been announced, with UK and/or regional premieres of Puppetmaster: The Littlest Reich, Dead Night, Await Further Instructions, I’ll Take Your Dead and many more besides. To get a look at the full program, announced just days ago, and to buy tickets, head over to the Grimmfest website, here.

PS Publishing announce stock clearance bundle sale

The folks over at PS Publishing are clearing space in their warehouse for new releases, which means that there are some incredible bundle deals available for lovers of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Included in the offers are volumes twenty-four to twenty-seven of Stephen Jones’ acclaimed Best New Horror anthologies, with the very best horror shorts of 1989 – 1991, along with another of Lovecraft-inspired anthologies, illustrated Lovecraft adaptations, Five Star Science Fiction anthologies and more besides. There are also great value deals on individual books, too. Check out the sale in its entirety, in their webshop, here.

KEV HARRISON

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