News Round-up Week Ending 15 October 2021

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … October Nights, featuring four interconnected Halloween-themed stories by Kevin Lucia, coming 22 October from Crystal Lake Publishing Halloween is a night when anything seems possible. This is true everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the …

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TIH 415: Catherynne M. Valente on Comfort Me with Apples, The Past is Red, and Fairyland

TIH 415: Catherynne M. Valente on Comfort Me with Apples, The Past is Red, and Fairyland

In this podcast Catherynne M. Valente talks about Comfort Me with Apples, The Past is Red, Fairyland, and much more.  About Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a …

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Look Out For … Something More Than Night by Kim Newman

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“With his latest novel, Newman slips into the hardboiled detective world with ease, presenting a supernatural tale starring two of the most iconic celebrities of the 1930s.” Hollywood, California, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler, pulp writer of detective stories, and Boris Karloff, the original monster of Hollywood. Joining forces, this unlikely team investigate their town, …

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Meet the Writer: Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, including Vastarien, Dark Moon Digest, The NoSleep Podcast, and Tales to Terrify. Visit his website (mikethornwrites.com) and connect with him on Twitter (@MikeThornWrites).   What first attracted you to horror writing? Reflecting on my earliest childhood encounters with horror, …

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