“Get to clipping your coupons … with Triana and Harding writing together, this book promises to be a blue-light special straight down the bowels of Hell.” The troubles are just starting for the employees of the Freshway grocery store. Already unhappy about working an overnight shift, the team has to face a siege from their …
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News Round-up Week Ending 12 February 2021
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Hearts Strange and Dreadful, the new novel from Tim McGregor and Off Limits Press, out now New England, 1821—Hester Stokely, an orphan with unusual abilities, struggles to find her place in the pious town of Wickstead. …
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Done to Death: Five Horror Clichés to Avoid in Your Fiction
Writers are often told to write what we know, which isn’t bad advice, necessarily. But one of the things we know are other stories, and when we first start out, we imitate the stories we’ve read and admired—whether consciously or not—and in the process often end up repeating what’s been done before. Shared ideas, character …
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Look Out For … Those Below The Tree House by Matt Hayward
“With this new novel, Hayward delivers a coming-of-age story with all the horror, and heart, readers have come to expect with his work.” During his thirteenth birthday, Tony’s stepfather is severely wounded from a strange bite on his neck. The sole police officer in Riverside searches the woods for the attacker. They tell Tony not …
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Book Review: Black Bubbles by Kelli Owen
“Black Bubbles is a large and varied collection, tackling many different subjects and narrative types, but all with Owen’s tremendous storytelling style.” As an editor and reviewer for more than a decade, Kelli Owen developed and refined her taste in fiction. With a personal style that ranges from thriller to psychological horror to extreme …
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News Round-up Week Ending 1 May 2020
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Weird Punk Books announce first two novellas in The Mud Ballad by Jo Quenell and Sabbath of the Fox Devils by Sam Richard From the publishing house that brought you Zombie Punks Fuck Off and The New Flesh: A Literary …
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News Round-up Week Ending 13 March 2020
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Sole Survivor by Zachary Ashford, the next installment in Unnerving’s ‘Rewind or Die’ series, coming 26 March An uninhabited island … Several hundred hidden cameras … Ten contestants who think they’re stranded … One man employed …
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News Round-up Week Ending 17 January 2020
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New anthology, Lost Voices, out now from Lulu.com Lost Voices is a horror anthology of tales left by the wayside: stories recorded on abandoned VHS tapes, horrors found in lifeless towns, voices silenced by the encroaching darkness. …
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Look Out For … Spungunion by John Boden
“With Spungunion, John twists haunting grief with strange mythical characters, delivering a bizarre and horrifying journey you won’t soon forget.” Deke spends half his time on the road. Broken-hearted over the loss of the woman he loves, everything he’s ever wanted ripped from him because someone killed her. He’s a shell, a ghost of his …
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