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News Round-up Week Ending 31 January 2020

January 31, 2020
4 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Coming 8 February from Aphotic Realm, Where Dragonflies Dance, by A. A. Medina Launching on 8 February is the new novella in the in the Claybrook Country Chronicles series, of which Siphon was the first. In this volume, …

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TOD 065 State of Black Science Fiction Encore Authors Panel

January 30, 2020
11 mins to read

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents ‘The State of Black Science Fiction’ Encore Authors Panel, presented by Subsume Summit, moderated by Milton J. Davis and featuring Marcus Haynes, Violette L. Meier, Kortney Watkins, and Aziza Sphinx, plus The Outer Dark Symposium 2020 news and special guest co-host Tonya Liburd. The panel was recorded live on …

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Look Out For … Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ by Mendal W. Johnson

January 30, 2020
2 mins to read

“Originally released in 1974, Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ has gained a massive reputation as one of the most terrifying horror novels ever published.” They’re only kids. That’s what Barbara keeps telling herself. But now the twenty-year-old babysitter is getting a little worried. It’s just a game. She finds herself bound and gagged, the …

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Splatterpunk—Yes … There Will be Blood: Origins in Urban Decay

January 29, 2020
9 mins to read

1980 AD. Jimmy Carter is in the last full year of his presidency, Mount St. Helen’s awakens from her slumber, AC/DC’s singer Bon Scott drinks himself to death, the US pulls out of the Olympics in Moscow, the Rubik’s Cube frustrates millions, Iron Maiden is born and John Bonham dies, Darth Vader is Luke’s father, …