With Halloween on the way, it’s a good time to find some suitably chilling reading or viewing for when the night wind howls outside. Maybe that’s why my thoughts turned to The Nightmare Man, the BBC TV adaptation of David Wiltshire’s novel. It scared the hell out of British viewers in 1981, and inspired a …
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“Noctuidae by Scott Nicolay cements him in the annals of contemporary Weird Fiction without the trappings of the forefathers of the genre.” Three hikers are exploring a canyon in Arizona. They are experienced, yet looking for experiences beyond the ordinary. Sue-Min, her lover Ron, and his obnoxious friend Paul — tagging along practically uninvited — …
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Look Out For… Furnace by Livia Llewellyn “Livia Llewellyn’s stories generate an almost visceral sense of unease.” Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage …
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Look Out For… The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth “In The Devil’s Detective, Unsworth gives us his own personal and idiosyncratic version of Hell.” Welcome to hell… …. where skinless demons patrol the lakes and the waves of Limbo wash against the outer walls, while the souls of the Damned float on their surface, …
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“Leaves you with a sour taste in your mouth as the credits roll!” Based on the successful 2010 Joe Hill (the son of horror maestro Stephen King) novel of the same name, Horns tells the tale of Ig (Daniel Radcliffe), a young man who, upon waking from a drunken stupor, finds himself accused of …
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“A strong alternative take on a traditional ghost story trope staggering around in the dark trying to find a decent story to fit itself into.” With a startling nineteen films under her belt since her breakout role in Little Miss Sunshine we are no longer asking the question: “what will Abigail Breslin do as a …
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“A serious contender for best collection of the year!” In his introduction to Ana Kai Tangata Laird Barron, one of the finest practitioners of what might be considered the modern weird tale, claims that Scott Nicolay is as good a debut author as he has ever read. The problem with such praise is, of course, …
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We recently caught up with Andre Duza, the author of Necro Sex Machines and Jesus Freaks. Duza’s work has been published in many magazines, including Undead and Chainsaw Magazine. At the beginning of this interview, Andre speaks bravely and honestly of a traumatic childhood experience, which was the catalyst to writing from a very young …
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“Chock-full of wonderfully diseased invention” Ed Gein’s name will be instantly familiar to most horror fans; the necrophile’s activities in late 50s rural Wisconsin inspired a few of the most famous films in the genre. Although Gein cannot be classified as a serial killer, having ‘only’ murdered two women, his obsession with death and his …
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FrightFest is one of our favourite events of the horror calendar. Hot off the press is the full FrightFest 2013 line-up. Expect us to be talking about this right up until festivities kick off on Thursday August 2013. And with that said, here are the delights you can expect on the main screen. THURSDAY AUG …
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TIH 564: Adam Nevill on Cunning Folk, No One Gets… In this podcast, Adam Nevill talks about Cunning Folk, the…
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