The Muppets and Mahna, Mahna – the Untold Story!

  • December 3, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

This is a story that’s never been told. It’s about the tragedy that dogs every triumph and the fallacy that underlies fame. It concerns a true entertainment icon – the Muppet known to millions as Mahna Mahna. Read more…

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 December

  • December 3, 2012

  • 2 mins to read
American Mary

The Soska Sisters invade the UK The Soska Sisters’ new film American Mary will be opening in selected UK cinemas from 11 January 2013 and the sisters themselves will hosting screenings across the country. The screenings are sponsored by FrightFest Presents and will also feature lead actress Katharine Isabelle. Full dates and details can be found at …

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Review: The 13 Ghosts of Christmas

  • December 3, 2012

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The 13 Ghosts of Christmas is the latest offering from Spectral Press and celebrates editor Simon Marshall-Jones’ love of the traditional ghost story. The collection brings together some of the hottest talent in the horror genre to celebrate the darker side of the festive period and take the reader back to an era of ghost …

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Interview: Eric Reinert

  • November 30, 2012

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Eric Robert Reinert is a horror artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also a musician, and has played drums in numerous metal and punk bands. He currently plays with black metal band Goatfisted. Read more…

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Christmas Horror at Warwick University, tomorrow, 6PM

  • November 29, 2012

  • 3 mins to read

Tomorrow, Friday 30 November, we have an incredibly special evening of horror planned for you. Ray Cluley, John Costello, Joseph D’Lacey and Alison Littlewood will all be reading at our Christmas Event running from 6-9PM in The Writer’s Room at The University of Warwick. This is a free event – please e-mail Michael@ThisIsHorror.co.uk with the …

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Interview: Gav Chuckie Steel

  • November 29, 2012

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When Gav Chuckie Steel started writing Instrumental hip hop and producing bands and artists, his love of hip hop and horror films was apparent in his music – this brought on the idea of scoring for films, which ultimately brought on the idea of writing his own film (The Shadow of Death) to use as …

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Interview: August V. Fahren

  • November 28, 2012

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August V. Fahren is the author of highly entertaining and weird (i.e. bizarro) fantasy and horror stories. Often these quirky and strangely compelling tales are described by their contrasting elements such as sweet and demented or hilarious and horrifying. August is a personality collector of the highest caliber, an avid traveler, and is hopelessly addicted …

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Review: Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig

  • November 27, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Chuck Wendig takes all the outstanding elements from Blackbirds, the first novel to feature Miriam Black, and dials them up to eleven for Mockingbird. Once again the pacing, pitch black humour and whip-sharp dialogue are a joyous treat that have you simultaneously desperate to read more and reluctant to devour the book too quick. Read …

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Interview: Weldon Burge (Smart Rhino Publications)

  • November 26, 2012

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Weldon Burge is the founder and Executive Editor of Smart Rhino Publications, which published the horror anthology, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad, earlier this year, and recently published the suspense/thriller anthology, Uncommon Assassins. His fiction has appeared in Suspense Magazine, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Grim Graffiti, The Edge: Tales of Suspense, Alienskin, …

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Examining the Basket Case trilogy

  • November 26, 2012

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I’ve always had time for writer-director Frank Henenlotter. Anyone who mentions ‘Jess Franco’s House of Pain’ in the end title acknowledgements to one of his films (in that case Brain Damage) is all right by me. His most recent cinematic offering, Bad Biology (2008) was a glorious riot of sexual and genitalia-orientated bad taste that …

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