Book Review: The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror by William Meikle

The Ghost Club by William Meikle - cover

“Take a seat at the dinner table, but be warned … the price for your presence there will haunt you.”   The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror is a very interesting premise for a collection. It’s supposed to be a hidden book of tales written by history’s greatest storytellers who were a …

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News Round-up Week Ending 22 December 2017

Corpse Cold

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Corpse Cold, new short story collection by John Brhel and Joe Sullivan, out now After a successful kickstarter which generated 968% of the original target, Cemetery Gates Media has just released a book of campfire-style spooky …

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Portugal’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Quinta das Lágrimas

Memorial -Quinta Das Lágrimas

Quinta das Lágrimas (the palace of tears) is a huge royal palace, now functioning as a five-star spa hotel, but peel back the skin and you will discover something altogether darker. Located on the edge of the city of Coimbra and likely built sometime in the 13th century, the palace played host to a number …

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Look Out For … The Children of Resurrection Gardens by Stone Wallace

The Children of Resurrection Gardens by Stone Wallace - cover

“Coming from a background of loving stories with strong, heroic characters, Wallace taps into real fears everyone can relate to. “ A quiet, scenic California town. The kind of place you’d want to settle in, start a family, and watch your kids grow up. But the kids in Clear Vista never really grow up. Strange …

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TIH 183: Jasper Bark on Horror Publishing Landscape, Crafting Characters, Distraction Free Lives, and Social Media Breaks

TIH 183 Jasper Bark on Horror Publishing Landscape, Crafting Characters, Distraction Free Lives, and Social Media Breaks

In this podcast Jasper Bark talks about the Horror Publishing Landscape, Crafting Characters, Distraction Free Lives, Social Media Breaks and much more. About Jasper Bark Jasper Bark is an award-winning novelist, children’s author and comic book writer. Famed for his imaginative storytelling he’s published four novels, twelve children’s books and countless comics and graphic novels. …

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Searchlight: Jim Williams

Jim Williams

After finally experiencing Julie Ducournau’s excellent film Raw, checking out the soundtrack was next on the list. So much of my writing process revolves around music it’s become integral to the experience, and if there’s one thing most writers have in common, it’s our love of soundtracks. Jim Williams’ score for Raw is one of …

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Book Review: Coffle by Gemma Files

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“For anyone who enjoys tales of post-apocalyptic gloom!” Coffle plunges the reader immediately and unceremoniously into a viscerally bleak world of slavery, pseudo-zombies and horror, in the truest sense. After an apocalyptic war, Ardenne—herself an escaped former slave—stands at the head of a coffle train of escapees, fleeing servitude across what appears to be one …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 Dec 2017

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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: Vanity Fair tap into why 2017 was such a stellar year for horror at the cinema Bloody Disgusting point us to a video about horror movies which may have …

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The Outer Dark Symposium 2018 Gets Really Weird at the Winchester Mystery House

Outer Dark Symposium 2018 poster

This past March, Atlanta, Georgia hosted the first annual Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird to a smashing success. With 2018 right around the corner, The Outer Dark is poised to turn San Jose, California weird as the symposium returns with panels and readings from the very best in contemporary weird fiction. On 24 …

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News Round-up Week Ending 15 December 2017

John F D Taff

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … John F. D. Taff’s entire full-length back catalogue relaunched by Grey Matter Press Ahead of the launch in 2018 of the third short story collection, Little Black Spots, from ‘The King of Pain,’ John F. D. Taff, Grey …

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