Originally published in 2001 by Razorblade Press, Hush was short-listed for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel at the British Fantasy Awards. It’s been twelve years since it was released to critical acclaim, and has now been re-released in digital format through BadPress. Read more…
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News Round-up Week Ending 5 October
Autumn: Horror in the East t-shirts The new horror convention, hitting Lowestoft this November, Autumn: Horror in the East have just announced the pre-order of official Autumn t-shirts. T-shirts will also be available on the day at what promises to be Lowestoft’s premiere horror convention. Shady Palms Allen Dusk, award-winning dark fiction and poetry author, …
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Review: Attack of the Werewolves
Coming out in the UK under a slightly better title than the US Game of Werewolves, Juan Martinez Moreno’s Lobos de Arga is a Spanish comedy horror film set in the remote village of Arga. As we discover in the opening credits the village is currently labouring under a terrible curse that is the result …
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A short history of Australian horror
Australian horror These two words have different connotations for many people worldwide. Australian horror has exploited fears of Australia’s ‘wide-open spaces’, and the isolation and vulnerability of people where the population drops to less than fifty individuals per square kilometre. Wolf Creek and Snowtown are based on real-life crimes such as Ivan Milat’s ‘backpacker murders’, …
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Joseph D’Lacey launches Blood Fugue in London with Pat Cadigan, Jonathan Green and Jasper Bark
The next This Is Horror event will take place at Blackwell’s Charing Cross, London branch on Friday November 16, 2012. Kicking off promptly at 6pm and running through until 8pm, the evening celebrates the launch of Joseph D’Lacey’s forthcoming, Blood Fugue. The event features readings from Arthur C. Clarke award-winner, Pat Cadigan, the creator of …
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Review: Sinister
When it was first announced that Jason Blum of Paranormal Activity and Insidious fame would be producing this year’s hotly hyped horror release, Sinister, there were certain question marks. On one hand the original Paranormal Activity managed to reinvent and breathe life into an old subgenre in the shape of found footage, whilst on the …
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Happy Halloween 2: Crushing Passion vs. Bloody Commerce (aka Fiends Unite!)
Is it really the second Halloween edition of this column? Looks like it is, and I’m still waiting on that office, Mike. Anyway, it’s my personal favourite time of year and it’s beating rain outside all weekend. That’s the ideal time to reflect and genuflect at the altars of the things we dig most. In …
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Review: Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Since the mid-1990s, Scandinavian fiction has enjoyed an unprecedented upsurge in popularity. Writers like Jo Nesbø and Camilla Läckberg have ridden the so-called Nordic Noir crimewave in the wake of Henning Mankell’s ‘Wallander’ novels and Stieg Larsson’s extraordinary ‘Millennium’ trilogy, gathering huge international sales, critical acclaim and large budget film adaptations. TV series like Wallander, …
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4 Must Read Articles
This week on Must Read Horror Articles: Top 5 Zombie Films of All Time Horror Education of the Week: ‘Aliens’ [Good Scenes in Bad Movies] The ‘House of Wax’ Edition Top Horror Films from the 1960s If you want more useful links like the must read horror articles we highlight every week, then please follow …
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