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News Round-up Week Ending 12 January 2018

January 12, 2018
3 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Broken Shells, from Michael Patrick Hicks, out 6 February On 6 February, the new novella, Broken Shells, from dark fiction writer Michael Patrick Hicks (Convergence, The Marque) is released through High Fever Books. The novella is a story …

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Look Out For … Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

January 11, 2018
2 mins to read

“Besides fostering the modern age of science-fiction, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic horror story, evoking powerful dynamics as we see creator become monster, and monster become human.” Cadavers fresh from the grave, cobbled together with stitches, a mad doctor creates an abomination in his hidden laboratory. Using science to reanimate lifeless tissue, Victor Frankenstein’s obsessions …

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TIH 186: Orrin Grey on Never Bet The Devil, Classic Horror Monsters, and Finding Your Writing Voice

January 11, 2018
4 mins to read

In this podcast Orrin Grey talks about Never Bet The Devil, classic horror monsters, finding your writing voice, and much more. About Orrin Grey Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. His stories of monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared …

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Book Review: Great British Horror 2, edited by Steve J. Shaw

January 10, 2018
8 mins to read

“No doubt, in years to come, Great British Horror will become the publication serious and aspiring horror writers beg to be seen in.” Last year saw the first in a new proposed yearly anthology series, Great British Horror, subtitled 1: Green and Pleasant Land. In it was an impressive array of writers—both relatively new …