News Round-up Week Ending 22 June 2018

gaslight gothic

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Latest in pastiche Sherlock Holmes series from Edge Publishing, Gaslight Gothic, available for pre-order tomorrow This anthology of shorts in the gothic vein, featuring the world’s greatest detective, includes stories by Stephen Volk, David Stuart Davies, Lyndsay …

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Look Out For … The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield

The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield - cover

“The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield promises to combine thrilling international intrigue with the occult during the height of the Cold War in ways we’ve never seen before.” The Cold War, 1963. A botched assassination of a traitor forces British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter to escape London. With a mysterious woman named Karina …

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TIHR 001: Jennifer Lynch on Chained, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Broken Humans

TIHR 001 Jennifer Lynch on Chained, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Broken Humans

In this remastered and re-edited This Is Horror Podcast conversation Jennifer Lynch talks about Chained, Vincent D’Onofrio, broken humans, and much more. The original podcast aired on 4 February 2013. About Jennifer Lynch Jennifer Chambers Lynch is an American film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch. She is also known …

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Searchlight: Writing Without Rules

Writing Without Rules by Jeff Somers

Spend any amount of time studying the craft of writing and you’ll come to realize that there are too many “rules”, and a lot of the time, these rules conflict and contradict each other. There are some standards that have withstood the test of time, such as “read, read, read”, but that seems more like …

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