In this podcast Elizabeth Hand talks about creative writing, life lessons, the seventies punk scene, and much more. Elizabeth Hand A New York Times notable and multiple award-winning author, Elizabeth Hand has written seven novels, including the cult classic Waking the Moon, and short-story collections. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the …
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News Round-up Week Ending 26 April 2019
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
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!
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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