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News Round-up Week Ending 11 September 2020

September 11, 2020
6 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Where We Live, a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by Tim Cooke, out now from Demain Publishing ‘Where We Live’ is a collection of loosely connected short stories that track the same central character’s …

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TOD 081 Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting

September 10, 2020
18 mins to read

In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 continues with Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting, the weekend’s first panel moderated by Lesley Wheeler and featuring Mike Allen, Benjamin Capps, Fiona Maeve Geist, Edward Austin Hall, Brooke Warra, and teri.zin. PLUS Mike Allen reads and Lesley Wheeler and featuring …

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Look Out For … Helena by Claire L. Smith

September 10, 2020
3 mins to read

“This novella, both historical and relevant to current times, combines the ghostly with the very real horror of a rampant serial killer, just in time for the creepy Halloween season.” Near London in 1855, Helena Morrigan is tormented by poverty and the burdens of her past. A mortician and funeral director, she resides in an …

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Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

September 9, 2020
7 mins to read

Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower “Hightower strikes the perfect balance between horror and drama, sadness and hope, in this tale of tragedy and the purest love.” It has been a busy couple of years for author Laurel Hightower since the publication of first novel Whispers in the Dark (Journalstone, 2018). Not only has …