Tomorrow evening’s event with David Moody, Joseph D’Lacey, Simon Bestwick and Jasper Bark

  • June 21, 2012

  • 2 mins to read

If you’re coming to our This Is Horror Premium Chapbook launch event tonight at The University of Warwick, there’s free parking at Milburn House after 6:30pm. Alternatively parking is free all day on Milburn Hill Road – it gets pretty busy during the day but eases up after 5pm. Just to stress the event is …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tomorrow-evenings-event-with-david-moody-joseph-dlacey-simon-bestwick-and-jasper-bark/

Spawn of Jaws: The Great Shark Movie Rip-Offs

  • June 20, 2012

  • 2 mins to read

This June sees the re-release, in selected cinemas across the UK, of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). It’s a film that pretty much set its director on the road to fame and fortune while at the same time making a huge amount of money for Universal. Jaws was such a success that it generated a whole …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/spawn-of-jaws-the-great-shark-movie-rip-offs/

What is a chapbook? (And why every horror reader should own at least one)

  • June 20, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Today is International Short Story Day. We thought we’d do our bit and celebrate a literary art form that has undergone something of a revival recently – the chapbook. The chapbook is perhaps the short story in its ultimate form – a self contained, ordinarily limited and luxury edition. Find out a little bit about …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/what-is-a-chapbook-and-why-every-horror-reader-should-own-at-least-one/

Have we had enough of found footage films?

  • June 20, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Voyeurism is an intrinsic part of the human condition – you only have to witness what happens on a motorway when an accident has occurred on the other side of the central reservation to see that. Perhaps there is a perverse sense of schadenfreude within us all, the ability to take pleasure in the suffering …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/have-we-had-enough-of-found-footage-films/