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News Round-up Week Ending 20 November 2020

November 20, 2020
8 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Apex Magazine returns with a free mini-issue ahead of issue 121 in early 2021 After a hiatus, Apex Magazine returns in early 2021, with issue number 121, thanks to a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. One of …

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TIH 375: Sarah Read on Living in a Haunted House, Working in a Library, and Getting into Horror

November 19, 2020
4 mins to read

In this podcast Sarah Read talks about living in a haunted house, working in a library, getting into horror, and much more. About Sarah Read Sarah Read is a dark fiction writer in the frozen north of Wisconsin. Her short stories can be found in Gamut, Black Static, and other places, and in various anthologies including Exigencies, Suspended in …

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Look Out For … We Hear Voices by Evie Green

November 19, 2020
3 mins to read

“With this new novel writing as Evie Green, the imaginary friend trope gets new life against the backdrop of a terrible flu, eerily mirroring and channelling our current fears and obsessions.” Most kids have imaginary friends. So when Rachel’s son Billy suddenly recovers from a terrible flu that’s killed many, she doesn’t even think of …

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Book Review: It Will Just be Us by Jo Kaplan

November 18, 2020
8 mins to read

“It’s a book that demands careful attentive reading but also impels the reader forward to each new revelation. The very definition of an unputdownable read.” In recent years, there seems to have grown a division between what some see as old school, classic horror, and a more subtle, arthouse take on the genre. Though these …