Interview: Jeremy C. Shipp

Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin and Shroud. Keep on reading…

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Peter Tennant Interview, Part I

We recently caught up with Peter Tennant, prolific author of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction and regular reviewer for the This Is Horror Magazine of the Year, Black Static. Keep on reading…

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The ‘I’ in Horror

Writers of great horror don’t hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm. Settings may be familiar, but somehow they are also warped. ‘Natural’ elements are inevitably of the ‘un’ or ‘super’ variety. Plots are designed to unnerve. In horror, the …

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Let’s Drink to the Dead by Simon Bestwick

Let’s Drink to the Dead is a must read for anyone who enjoyed Simon Bestwick’s second novel, The Faceless. Set in the same Lancashire town of Kempforth, it features three interconnected stories that create a prequel to the events of the novel. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Wol-vriey

Wol-vriey is Nigerian, and quite tall. He currently resides in a state of uneasy stalemate with his threatening-to-thin-beyond-redemption hair, and believes there actually are things that go bump in the night. Wol-vriey is the author of The Bizarro Story of I, The Clockwork Goddess and Chainsaw Cop Corpse. Keep on reading…

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 April 2013

The Howling

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, the place to discover the best articles of the week. This week: Canuxploitation: The Primer 4 Reasons Why Most Horror Remakes Fail HowStuffWorks: How Tremors Graboids Work I Choose To Stand: Retrospective: The Howling How We Made Knightmare For more articles like this, please follow @thisishorror on Twitter. …

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Interview: Monty Borror

Monty Borror is the illustrator of Quarantined, a graphic novel written by Michael Moreci. His previous work includes Spirit Window and Garbage Day from Arcana Ent, and the anthology 2012 Final Prayer. Cold Blooded Chillers, in which Borror’s work appears, was the winner of the bronze Independent Publisher’s Award in 2009. He is currently illustrating work for Arcana …

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News Round-up Week Ending 12 April

Nightsiders

Nightsiders eMerges Keep repeating, it’s only a story, it’s only a story, it’s only a story… DarkFuse are pleased to announce that Gary McMahon’s new novella Nightsiders is now available on Kindle. As ever, McMahon mixes the macabre and the evocative in this brilliant new novella. The novella can be downloaded in both the UK and US …

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Interview: Sarah Langan

Sarah Langan is the author of the novels The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey’s Door. She is currently finishing her fourth book, Empty Houses. Her work has garnered three Bram Stoker Awards, an ALA Award, a New York Times Book Review editor’s pick, a PW favourite book of the year selection, and has been optioned …

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Video Trailer: Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey

Following on from the release of Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey last week, we can reveal an absolute monster of a trailer courtesy of those good people at Angry Robot and The Horrod & Harris Partnership who created the trailer. Whilst book trailers are becoming increasingly popular, Horrod & Harris really have gone all out …

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