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Winners: HP Lovecraft’s Chill

August 20, 2012
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Continuing the Lovecraft birthday celebrations, here are the winners of our HP Lovecraft competition. Each will receive a copy of Chill. Winners: David Lees, Mike Roth, Jennifer Griffin, David McWilliam and James Mathurin We will be contacting each of you shortly and sending out the DVDs. Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to …

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Review: Doll Parts by Wayne Simmons

August 20, 2012
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With Drop Dead Gorgeous, Wayne Simmons set up an apocalypse unlike any other. His creatures were not just zombies, as you might have expected if you had read his debut novel, Flu. The monsters in DDG were all beautiful women, or Dolls, risen from the dead to wreak havoc around Belfast, their flapping eyes and …

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4 Must Read Horror Articles

August 20, 2012
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This week on Must Read Horror Articles: The Horror of British TV Comedies [Remember This?] Spielberg Dumps JoBeth Williams in a Pool with Real Skeletons in Poltergeist Colin Harvey – one year on Discovery of M.R. James story gives chidden chance to write ghostly ending If you want more useful links like the must read …

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5 Reasons Why You Should Read At Least One HP Lovecraft Story

August 20, 2012
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Today marks the birthday of HP Lovecraft, one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century. Lovecraft wrote hundreds of short stories and novellas from 1917 right up until his death in 1937. Stephen King proclaimed him one of the greatest practitioners of the classic horror tale, and yet some readers find his …