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This Is Horror Awards 2012: The Winners

January 31, 2013
3 mins to read

It’s finally time to unveil the winners in this year’s This Is Horror Awards. Click through to find out who the winners are in each category in the This Is Horror Awards 2012. Novel of the Year Film of the Year TV Series of the Year Comic of the Year Short Story Collection of the …

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Interview: Carole Johnstone

January 31, 2013
1 min to read

What first attracted you to horror writing? No idea; I assume that I was just born this way. Or it might have been my dad’s fault: his bed time stories were old Scottish poems about ghosts and witches. When I was twelve, I asked for and got the collected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. …

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Review: Dangerous Gifts by Gaie Sebold

January 29, 2013
1 min to read

Gaie Sebold’s Babylon Steel was one of the most enjoyable debuts of 2012. The follow-up, Dangerous Gifts, begins once more in the anything-goes city-state of Scalentine, where Babylon Steel, sometime sword-for-hire, runs (and occasionally works in) the city’s best brothel, the Red Lantern. Recruited to bodyguard a young heiress, Enthemmerlee, Babylon travels to nearby Incandress, …

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Review: High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

January 29, 2013
1 min to read

If High Moor were a Premier League football match it would be a Monday Night Special between two mid-table sides that ends in a 4-4 draw or a 6-3 win; it’s not the beautiful game played out by twenty-two players at the height of their technical abilities but, by god, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The bulk …