News Round-up Week Ending 30 August 2019

Cricket hunters

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from author Jeremy Hepler and Silver Shamrock Publishers comes Cricket Hunters, coming 1 September Celia (Garcia) Lundy was fifteen in the fall of 1998 when Abby Powell, one of her five friends who called themselves …

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Look Out For … On the Night Border by James Chambers

On the Night Border by James Chambers

“Chambers has a knack for making the ordinary extremely scary with the ability of a natural storyteller, spinning tales that easily slip into your nightmares.” A man desperately tries to kill his memories. A young girl grows up while standing in the shadow of a terrible monster. A legendary literary writer deals with a chaotic …

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Splatterpunk: Yes … There Will be Blood!

Splatterpunk Crew

No single sub-genre of fiction has spawned as much delight and controversy as splatterpunk. The mutated lovechild of clinical, horrific, and unflinching description with pulse-pounding, hair-raising stories populated by characters at the fringe of society, splatterpunk knows no limits or boundaries. It is horror fiction that rips through the barriers with its bare hands, pushing …

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Book Review: Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror edited by David James Keaton and Max Booth III

Tales From the Crust, edited by David James Keaton and Max Booth III

“There are so many different flavours of horror available that it will be nigh on impossible for a reader not to find something to enjoy.”   If you follow either of the co-editors on social media, or are yourself a budding short story author, you may well have seen the origin of this seemingly-absurd concept …

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