Look Out For … Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor

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“With his latest novel, McGregor pulls out all the stops with a coming of age story that will tug at your heart and send a shiver down your spine.” For Mark Prewitt, there’s only two priorities that matter: avoiding his father’s new wife, and killing time with this friends. It’s Summer, 1987, and idle nights …

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Meet the Writer: Nat Cassidy

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Nat Cassidy writes horror for the page, stage, and screen. You’ve probably heard enough about him thanks to his long-winded and self-fellating answers below, so let’s just wrap this up, yeah? He lives in New York with his wife, the actor Kelley Rae O’Donnell. What first attracted you to horror writing? I had been assured …

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TIH 480: Andy Mitton on Screenwriting, Writing Routine, and The Dark Half by Stephen King

TIH 480 Andy Mitton on Screenwriting, Writing Routine, and The Dark Half by Stephen King

In this podcast, Andy Mitton talks about screenwriting, his writing routine, The Dark Half by Stephen King, and much more. About Andy Mitton Originally from the Boston area and a resident of Los Angeles since 2001, Andy Mitton is a writer, composer, director, editor, and designer across multiple mediums, but his primary focuses are the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 January 2023

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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: The Lineup pick out seven horror book releases to get excited about in 2023 Dread Central’s ‘The Overlook Motel’ series features underappreciated found footage movie As Above, So Below Horror …

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News Round-up Week Ending 20 January 2023

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Out now from Crystal Lake Publishing and writer Elena Gomel, Nightwood All fairy tales were history once. Ally is a Ukrainian bride who married a wealthy Californian, Carl Morris. Everything is strange in her new home: the …

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TIH 479: Andy Mitton on The Harbinger, Sleep Paralysis, and Composing Film Scores

TIH 479 Andy Mitton on The Harbinger, Sleep Paralysis, and Composing Film Scores

In this podcast, Andy Mitton talks about The Harbinger, sleep paralysis, composing film scores, and much more. About Andy Mitton Originally from the Boston area and a resident of Los Angeles since 2001, Andy Mitton is a writer, composer, director, editor, and designer across multiple mediums, but his primary focuses are the disparate worlds of …

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Look Out For … Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

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“Snyder’s latest novel, inspired by her Bram Stoker Award-winning story ‘Magdala Amygdala’, delivers a cosmic horror apocalypse of nightmarish proportions.” Once quite and closeted, Erin develops a taste for a woman and her brain … the taste of forbidden fruit. Comfortable with both dominance and submission, Savannah discovers a new kink … brutally murdering for …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 January 2023

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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: Bloody Disgusting reminisce on what it was like to believe The Blair Witch Project was real in 1999 LitReactor suggest seven new year’s resolutions for every writer Nightmare magazine’s The H …

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Book Review: TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

“TerrorTome might read as though Robert Rankin or Jasper Fforde penned an amalgamation of Shaun Hutson, James Herbert, and Guy N. Smith books. With maybe a dash of Rick and Morty in there. But it is its own thing, with its own distinctive voice.”   Once upon a time, a show was made that was …

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News Round-up Week Ending 13 January 2023

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Out now from writer Ross Jeffery, Scorched, the third and final instalment of the Juniper trilogy Officer Teddy Barnes is a good man. One of the few left in the twisted and depraved town of Juniper. He has a …

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