Look Out For … Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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Look Out For … Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero “A very welcome nostalgic and subversive take on the cartoons of our childhoods.” Summer 1977 – The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon’s Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster–another low-life fortune …

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TIH 153: Nick Gucker on Art and Illustration, Weird Fiction, and Monster Magnet

TIH 153 Nick Gucker on Art and Illustrations, Weird Fiction, and Monster Magnet

In this podcast Nick Gucker talks about art, weird fiction, Monster Magnet, and much more. About Nick Gucker Nick Gucker’s art has appeared on the covers and the innards of numerous Lovecraftian, horror, and weird fiction publications. His illustrations embellish publications from Word Horde, Spectral, Deadite, Swallowdown, Eraserhead, Perilous, Splatterpunk, Blysster, Uncle Mike’s Woldwide, Ulthar, Eryx, …

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Searchlight: Crafty Screenwriting

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Listeners of the This Is Horror podcast have probably heard me mentioning a book called Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made by Alex Epstein. Though not an actual writing reference guide, this book influenced my writing quite a bit. Epstein’s brutal honesty and eye-opening approach to the script writing business isn’t for everyone, but …

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Book Review: Moriah by Daniel Mills

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“An exciting story with complex characters, beautiful prose and a compelling plot … Mills has delivered a piece of taut and suspenseful historical fiction that will please fans of literary and genre fiction alike.”   Daniel Mills has built something of a reputation as an author of historical fiction. Indeed, he has openly expressed a …

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Book Review: In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson

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“A supernatural rural noir, reeking of Texas and blood, that grabs you by the throat and never lets go.”   Travis Stillwell isn’t a very nice guy. Cruising Texas honkytonks by night, Travis plays the ladies’ man part well enough to add the notches to his belt. Unfortunately, the ladies never wake up after the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 Jun 2017

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: Stephen King And Richard Chizmar Talk Gwendy’s Button Box Resident Evil Original Novels Q&A With Dead By Daylight Creative Director Dave Richard 10 Smart Decisions Made In Horror Movies …

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Book Review: An Augmented Fourth by Tony McMillen

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“The individual elements of character, setting and description are intertwined like a strand of DNA to give this tale life and readers a quality read.”   Tony McMillen is the author of the novel Nefarious Twit (Branch Hands, 2013), a book LitReactor selected as their Book Club Selection for March 2014. A wonderful achievement for …

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News Round-up Week Ending 23 June 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Debut collection from Kristi DeMeester, Everything That’s Underneath set for release 29 August Apex Books present the first short story collection by Kristi DeMeester (Beneath). Featuring eighteen stories, Everything That’s Underneath is a collection of weird tales …

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TOD 014 The Outer Dark Symposium, Part 3: Readings by Craig Laurance Gidney, Grafton Tanner & Balogun Ojetade; “Not Another Bug Hunt: The Weird Monster as a Study of Singularity and in Différance” Panel

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the third installment of The Outer Dark Symposium, including readings by Craig Laurance Gidney, Grafton Tanner, and Balogun Ojetade, as well as the third panel ‘Not Another Bug Hunt: The Weird Monster as a Study of Singularity and in Différance’, moderated by Daniel Braum and features Orrin Grey, …

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Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix

Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix “Little has been written about those pulp paperbacks that were an essential horror fix for those of us of a certain age in the days long before Netflix, until now.” SEE the amazing vintage book …

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