News Round-up Week Ending 24 November 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Stephen King has Six Scary Stories for you Released through Cemetery Dance and on sale now in the UK through PS Publishing, Six Scary Stories is a collection of… well, six scary stories, selected by one of the …

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Look Out For … Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist

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“The Old West, a wicked virus scourging the land, and a young woman setting out across the desert plains to fight for what’s right … it has all the makings of a blockbuster hit everyone is going to be reading.” Ten years after the Civil War and things are still bad in the West Texas …

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TIH 178: Matt Cardin on Horror Literature Encyclopedia, Social Media Addiction, and A Course in Demonic Creativity

TIH 178 Matt Cardin on Horror Literature Encyclopedia, Social Media Addiction, and A Course in Demonic Creativity

In this podcast Matt Cardin talks about Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears, social media addiction, demonic creativity, and much more. About Matt Cardin Matt Cardin is a writer, editor, musician, and college professor and administrator living in North Texas. He is the author of the supernatural …

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Searchlight: Lore

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When writing horror, one thing that can make a story really scary is making it believable. For a lot of writers that means scouring the internet, books, historical records and more to find equivalents to the situations we are writing about. I was on just such an information hunt when I stumbled upon Lore, and …

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Book Review: The Polite Ones by Cody Goodfellow

The Polite Ones by Cody Goodfellow

“Goodfellow is the go-to guy for your fix of things strange and wonderful.” The Polite Ones by Cody Goodfellow is about a girl who has grown up in an underground world, years after the end of the human world above. She is a member of a clan and it’s customary for them to wear masks …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 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: No Film School highlights ten horror films that ought to be on every indie film student’s watch list John Ajvide Lindqvist reveals what scares him to The Straits Times …

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Book Review: I’ll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky by Brian Hodge

I'll Bring You Birds From Out of the Sky by Brian Hodge

“By turns emotional, thrilling, and dread-inducing, leading to a muted yet devastating conclusion. Brian Hodge is clearly a master craftsman of a writer.” Released as a limited-edition hardback through Cemetery Dance, Brian Hodge’s novella I’ll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky is a stellar example of a complete artistic package. From the …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 November 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New non-fiction release from Crystal Lake Publishing, Where Nightmares Come From out today A must for horror writers and readers alike, Where Nightmares Come From is the new non-fiction release from Crystal Lake Publishing which aims to distill …

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TOD 024 Nadia Bulkin: Mechanisms of Upheaval

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy. Also special guest Sandra Kasturi, author and editor/publisher of ChiZine Publications! Show Notes Author Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy (Word Horde), joins Scott to talk about her acclaimed debut collection, including her first pro sale (‘Intertropical Convergence Zone’) to ChiZine (2008), the long influence of …

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TIH 177: Matt Cardin on Horror and Spirituality, Thomas Ligotti, and Alan Watts

TIH 177 Matt Cardin on Horror and Spirituality, Thomas Ligotti, and Alan Watts

In this podcast Matt Cardin talks about horror and spirituality, Thomas Ligotti, Alan Watts, and much more. About Matt Cardin Matt Cardin is a writer, editor, musician, and college professor and administrator living in North Texas. He is the author of the supernatural horror fiction collections Divinations of the Deep (2002) and Dark Awakenings (2010). He is also the …

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