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News Round-up Week Ending 11 May 2018

May 11, 2018
3 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New non-fiction release by M. R. James expert Rosemary Pardoe coming 31 May Having edited the M. R. James-related supernatural magazine Ghosts & Scholars since 1979, Rosemary Pardoe knows a thing or two about supernatural fiction. Coming …

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Look Out For … The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

May 10, 2018
2 mins to read

“The concepts of this story; the shadowless and the cult that worships them, loss of memory and strange powers that come with a heavy price, are epic and universal, with horrific implications.” In the near future, at a market in India, a man’s shadow disappears. He’s not alone with this phenomenon, as others around …

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Book Review: Corpsepaint by David Peak

May 9, 2018
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“Bleak is a word used to describe so many releases within the horror and dark fiction worlds… With Corpsepaint, David Peak seeks to raise the bar in the reader’s understanding of what bleak really means.” Bleak is a word used to describe so many releases within the horror and dark fiction worlds. Whether it …

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Searchlight: Zodiac

May 8, 2018
4 mins to read

If there’s one word that effectively sums up Robert Graysmith, that word is obsessed. You really can’t blame the guy for being obsessed with the Zodiac killer. From the very beginning of the investigation, Graysmith was there, as the San Francisco Chronicle was just one of the three papers the elusive killer sent his cryptic …