News Round-up Week Ending 26 April 2019

  • April 26, 2019

  • 3 mins to read

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from Crystal Lake Publishing, Book Haven and Other Curiosities, by Mark Allan Gunnells From the author of Flowers in a Dumpster comes a new collection of stories to frighten you, move you and make you think. The …

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Look Out For … This is Midnight: Stories by Bernard Taylor

  • April 25, 2019

  • 2 mins to read

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Taylor’s horrific short fiction is finally compiled in one volume, making this a must have for all horror fans.  A man begins to feel ‘Out of Sorts’ while spending the night with his mistress during a full moon. With ‘Samhain’, black magic is the path for a witch wanting to get rid of her loser …

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe … We Never See the Monster!

  • April 24, 2019

  • 8 mins to read

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Within horror fandom, there seem to be two schools of thought: show the monster or leave it up to imagination. The basic horror formula, three acts that expose the monster/evil near the end of the third act, was the standard for decades. And as long as there’s a payoff, it still works today. It doesn’t …

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TIH 272: [Interlude] Health Update, This Is Horror Awards, and Story News with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella

  • April 23, 2019

  • 3 mins to read

TIH 272 [Interlude] Health Update, This Is Horror Awards, and Story News with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella

In this podcast Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella sit down for an interlude episode. Michael explains a little bit about his recent hospital visits, before we jump into the This Is Horror Awards, story news, and much more. Show notes [05:40] Michael David Wilson’s Health update [39:55] This Is Horror Awards [49:20] This Is …

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