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Book Review: The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

“ Prescribing to his own rule of ‘avoiding what’s been done to death’, The Booking shows Campbell in top form with a strange and creepy tale that lingers long after the last page is turned.” For over fifty years, British author Ramsey Campbell has been scaring readers with his strange and wholly original horror stories. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 July 2016

Frightfest 2016 poster

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Frightfest 2016 Line-up Schedule Announced As the 17th edition of horror and genre festival Frightfest draws ever closer, organisers have announced their 2016 line-up schedule, and as always it appears that we’re in for a treat. The …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 June 2016

The Rezort

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Jurassic Park With Zombies in The Rezort Set in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world where mankind has created a carefully controlled zombie safari park, The Rezort sees the inevitable system breakdown, unleashing the army of the undead to wreak …

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TOD A25 Henry Lien: The Elegant Art of the Literary Duel

TODA25-Henry Lien The Elegant Art of the Literary Duel

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Henry Lien, author of the Nebula Award-nominated ‘The Ladies Aquatic Gardening Society’ (Asimov’s, June 2015). Show Notes There’s no one quite like Henry Lien in spec-lit today. He has generated major buzz with just six unique stories. His first published story ‘Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters’, which features “an art form that …

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News Round-up Week Ending 20 May 2016

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees Announced The full list of nominees for the 2015 Shirley Jackson awards has been announced. Set to take place on Sunday 10 July at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, …

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Interview: Graham Masterton on Writing, Research and Violence

Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton is mainly recognized for his horror novels but he has also been a prolific writer of thrillers, disaster novels and historical epics, as well as one of the world’s most influential series of sex instruction books. He became a newspaper reporter at the age of seventeen and was appointed editor of Penthouse magazine …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 April 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… The Walking Dead Season Finale ‘Last Day on Earth’ Airs April 3 As the 6th season of AMC’s The Walking Dead comes to a close this Sunday, April 3, viewers are preparing for another summer long …

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News Round-up Week Ending 11 March 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Alan Moore & George A. Romero Named as 2016 HWA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners The Horror Writer’s Association has announced the recipients of their 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awards as Alan Moore and George A. Romero. The …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 January 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: The Value of Nightmares: How The Academy Awards Continue to Ignore Horror Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style An Appreciation of Claymation Horror Expert Lee Hardcastle A Bloody Good Time: ABGT Face-Off: …

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