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News Round-up Week Ending 16 November

November 16, 2012
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Newcastle Winter Book Festival bites the dust Unfortunately Newcastle Winter Book Festival has fallen through due to a lack of funds. The majority of events are now cancelled including the horror event on Saturday 24 November which is a crying shame due to the excellent line up. Nunkie Theatre marches on Robert Lloyd Parry continues …

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Joseph D’Lacey, Pat Cadigan and Jonathan Green – 6pm Tonight, London

November 16, 2012
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So, it’s finally here – the eagerly anticipated launch of award-winning eco-horror author, Joseph D’Lacey’s new take on the vampire genre, Blood Fugue. Join us at Blackwell’s Charing Cross for a night of horror curated by the horror enigma, Jasper Bark. This free event kicks-off at 6PM and will run until 8PM. There’s free blood …

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Interview: Jason Graves

November 15, 2012
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Jason Graves is an award-winning American television, film and video game music composer. He is more recently known for his musical score for Dead Space, a survival horror-action video game. What was the first soundtrack or composition that you listened to and how did it affect you? The first thing I heard that really made …

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Religion Won’t Save You: Religious Tropes in Horror Films

November 14, 2012
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Ask anyone to explain a link between religion and horror movies and you’ll undoubtedly hear a large number of replies citing the use of crosses to ward off vampires. But, the genre is so heavily laced with religious sub-plots and analogies, it goes much deeper than Van Helsing brandishing a representation of where Jesus was …