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News Round-up Week Ending 11 October 2019

October 11, 2019
7 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Sinkhole, the new novel from April A. Taylor, out now New from April A. Taylor (Corvo Hollows, The Haunting of Cabin Green) comes Sinkhole a new novel of unrelenting horror. A sinkhole opens up, swallowing a girl in …

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TOD 056 The Outer Dark Symposium 2019, Part 5: Ecstatic Weird Panel PLUS Readings by Jeff Strand, Kurt Fawver, and Zin E. Rocklyn

October 10, 2019
11 mins to read

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the fifth installment of The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019 including the panel ‘The Ecstatic Weird: The Weird as a Source of Transcendence and Awe’, moderated by Gordon B White and featuring Nadia Bulkin, Selena Chambers, Kurt Fawver, Orrin Grey, and Liv Rainey-Smith, as well …

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Look Out For … The Reddening by Adam Nevill

October 10, 2019
5 mins to read

“With his latest novel, Nevill goes beyond our concept of traditional folk horror and dives into a prehistoric nightmare with terrifying cosmic ramifications.” Even after one million years of evolution, our nature has never changed. Sometimes the old deities and ancient rites return in the last place we’d think to look. For Katrine, a lifestyle …

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Book Review: Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro

October 9, 2019
8 mins to read

“Assured, controlled, poetic and artistic but also grounded in recognisable realities—even while imbued with the fantastic—these stories are remarkable enough individually.” Back again with another fantastic release from Undertow Publications, and this time it’s the debut collection of Laura Mauro. For those not in the know, Laura has been writing/publishing professionally since about 2012. Her …