This Is Horror Awards 2017: Public Nominations Are Open

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Public nominations are now open for the seventh annual This Is Horror Awards. Here are the categories: Novel of the Year Novella of the Year Short Story Collection of the Year Anthology of the Year Fiction Magazine of the Year Publisher of the Year Fiction Podcast of the Year Nonfiction Podcast of the Year Readers can …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 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: Paste Magazine have a list of ten horror novels perfect for the holiday season Dread Central chat to indie director Michael Ballif about his anthology short film series The Witching …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 December 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Genre features for January’s Sundance Film Festival announced With one of the year’s most prestigious and earliest film festivals right around the corner, the genre film roster for the Sundance Film Festival has now been announced. …

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TOD 025 Nathan Carson: Touring the Weird by Canoe

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nathan Carson, author of Starr Creek and ‘The Willows’ graphic novel. Plus an all-new News from the Weird featuring co-hosts Justin Steele and Michael Griffin! Show Notes Nathan Carson, author of Starr Creek (Lazy Fascist Press), joins Scott to talk about his fiction and his recent graphic novel adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The …

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TIH 179: S.P. Miskowski on Life Lessons Growing Up, Writing Objectives, and Anxiety

TIH 179 S.P. Miskowski on Life Lessons Growing Up, Writing Objectives, and Anxiety

In this podcast S.P. Miskowski talks about her life lessons growing up, writing objectives, anxiety, and much more. About S. P. Miskowski S.P. Miskowski is a three-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Swarthout Award. Her M.F.A. is from the University of Washington. …

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Look Out For … One of Us Will be Dead by Morning by David Moody

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“With this new proposed series, now is the perfect time to expand on those harrowing concepts, and Moody is the guy with the chops to do it.” A group trapped on Skek in the middle of the North Sea. Skek used to be a military outpost, a scientific research facility, even a fishing settlement. Now …

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Book Review: Before by Paul Kane

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“If you enjoy losing yourself in a well-written supernatural thriller with strong elements of horror, curling up in your favourite reading spot with this book may well be the perfect way to spend a long winter evening or two.” A fan of horror, science fiction and fantasy from a young age, it should come as …

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Searchlight: Buried Alive

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Though he lived a short but well documented life, the more we discover about Edgar Allan Poe, the more of a mystery he becomes. 168 years later, and we still don’t know the exact circumstances of his untimely death. A new documentary from PBS shines a light on the man and the myths surrounding him. …

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Tattered Tomes: Danse Macabre by Stephen King

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When I originally read the first couple of pages of Danse Macabre I remember being a little pissed off. I felt cheated that this new ‘novel’ by Stephen King was actually a nonfiction book about horror. Those feelings certainly didn’t last too long. Maybe for a minute or two. I kept reading it, because even …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 Nov 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: Gizmodo take a post-Black Friday look at five horror movies set in shopping malls Vice examines why some horror movies appear to be thinly veiled Christian propaganda Game of …

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