This Is Horror

News Round-up Week Ending 17 August 2012

August 17, 2012
5 mins to read

Wayne Simmons and David Moody signing tour Wayne Simmons and David Moody have announced that they will be going on a signing tour across the country from August to December. “Wayne and I have become something of a double-act at signings and events”, says David Moody, “So much so that Waterstones have started spreading the …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-17-august-2012/

Review: The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert

August 16, 2012
1 mins to read

The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert is the latest release in the Spectral Visions series from Spectral Press. The novella tells the story of a crazed serial killer who murders his victims, all doctors, in the style of murders that happen in Vincent Price films. The novella is dedicated to the …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/review-the-nine-deaths-of-dr-valentine-by-john-llewellyn-probert/

RIP Harry Harrison: 12 March 1925 – 15 August 2012

August 15, 2012
1 mins to read

So many individuals have had significant impact and influence upon our lives that it’s easy for the importance of those who have disappeared from our minds to dim and fade away. I hadn’t thought about Harry Harrison for many years – not in any meaningful sense, anyway – until this morning when I heard of …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/rip-harry-harrison-12-march-1925-15-august-2012/

Never Sleep Again – Nightmare on Elm Street Memories

August 15, 2012
2 mins to read

We’ve spent the last week at Probert Towers watching Never Sleep Again, a quite remarkably exhaustive four-hour plus documentary on the Nightmare On Elm Street series of films and pretty much the last word on the subject. The team behind this have gathered together as many key personnel from each of these movies as they …