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Look Out For … The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell

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“Campbell has a way of taking the common and mundane things in our lives and turning them into something dreadful and terrifying.”  While staying with his aunt Thelma when he was in his teens, Patrick learned she had traveled to magical sites. Thelma was an artist, and her later works took a turn to the …

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News Round-up Week Ending 7 February 2020

Boatmans Daughter

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … The Boatman’s Daughter, the new novel from Andy Davidson, released next week Coming 11 February is The Boatman’s Daughter, the new novel from Andy Davidson (In the Valley of the Sun). After winning the This is Horror …

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News Round-up Week Ending 31 January 2020

Dragonflies Dance

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Coming 8 February from Aphotic Realm, Where Dragonflies Dance, by A. A. Medina Launching on 8 February is the new novella in the in the Claybrook Country Chronicles series, of which Siphon was the first. In this volume, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 January 2020

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Robert Englund, A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s original Freddy Kreuger, to present True Terror, on Travel Channel Zach D’amico of Rough Cut Cinema writes a guest post for the Washington Post …

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TOD 064 Brian Hauser: Filming Monsters Beyond the Edge of the Frame

In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Brian Hauser about his novel Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows (Word Horde) and his picks for the best Weird/horror movies he watched in 2019, plus Gordon B. White reviews new novellas by Michael Wehunt and Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. The interview and reviews were recorded on Sat. January 11 and Sun. January …

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TOD 060 State of Black Science Fiction Panel at Subsume Summit

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents ‘The State of Black Science Fiction’ Panel at Subsume Summit Atlanta moderated by Milton J. Davis and featuring Gerald L. Coleman, Marcus Haynes, Violette L. Meier, Balogun Ojetade, and Kortney Watkins, plus News from The Weird with Justin Steele and an introductory interview with Kortney Watkins. The panel was recorded live …

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TOD 052 The Outer Dark Symposium 2019, Part 3: The Fiction of Forking Paths and Readings by Larissa Glasser,  Selena Chambers, and Edward Austin Hall

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the third installment of The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019 including  the panel: ‘The Fiction of Forking Paths: Weird Horror and Spec-Lit from Latin-, Afro-, and other non-Anglo Traditions‘, moderated by Balogun Ojetade and  and featuring  Milton J. Davis, John  C. Foster, Kyoko M, Gabriela …

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Splatterpunk: Yes … There Will be Blood!

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No single sub-genre of fiction has spawned as much delight and controversy as splatterpunk. The mutated lovechild of clinical, horrific, and unflinching description with pulse-pounding, hair-raising stories populated by characters at the fringe of society, splatterpunk knows no limits or boundaries. It is horror fiction that rips through the barriers with its bare hands, pushing …

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Look Out For … And Cannot Come Again by Simon Bestwick

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“Themes of childhood memories and innocence lost, at once heartfelt and often as humorous as it is frightening, this collection is a must-have for all horror lovers.”    Tortured children turn to a mysterious urban legend for help. Four childhood friends remember events from a summer long ago, and the return of first love with …

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Why I Wrote … The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz

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  Certainly not a new name in the industry, Jonathan Janz has been steadily building his reputation, and bibliography, consistently delivering bone-chilling horror for nearly a decade. Author of The Sorrows, Dust Devils, Savage Species, Children of the Dark, Exorcist Falls, and most recently, The Siren and The Specter and The Dark Game, Janz has …

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