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News Round-up Week Ending 15 February

February 16, 2013
2 mins to read

Word War Z collector’s edition Cemetery Dance Publications have announced a very special collector’s edition of Max Brooks’ genre classic zombie tome, World War Z. The book has fantastic new artwork and is available in a variety of different versions on the Cemetery Dance website. AMC is bringing The Terror After the success of The Walking Dead, AMC …

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Before Dawn (2012)

February 15, 2013
1 min to read

Before Dawn is self-confessed horror and zombie enthusiast, Dominic Brunt’s first foray into filmmaking. Dominic found fame as Emmerdale’s longstanding vet, Paddy Kirk and has stapled his horror credentials to his sleeve as regular horror host of Leeds Zombie Film Festival. As a stranger to neither the genre nor the screen Before Dawn has all …

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Happy Valentine’s Day: Horror Style

February 14, 2013
1 min to read

L-O-V-E, love. That fickle, mercurial, elusive beast. Guardian angel to some, white whale to others. Since the dawn of time, it’s been responsible for saving the souls and dashing the hopes of countless courters in equal measure, lifting some spirits to the heavens to breathe new life into their hosts, while smashing some dreams to …

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On Behalf of Neglected Night Creatures

February 13, 2013
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It’s not that I hate vampires and zombies. Like many fans of dark fiction, I was once seduced by Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. I watched all of Buffy and some of Angel. The first season of True Blood was intriguing, as was its premise, though …