Tattered Tomes: Volume One of Clive Barker’s The Books of Blood, Revisited

Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Vol 1

One of my favorite places in all the world when I was growing up was the local Walden Books. This is back when horror was actually a separate genre, shelved apart from science-fiction and not lumped together with general fiction. Once a month I’d go there and search through the titles, looking for anything new …

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TIH 189: Laird Barron on Blood Standard, Crime and Horror Fiction, and Violence in Horror

TIH 189 Laird Barron on Blood Standard, Crime and Horror Fiction, and Violence in Horror

In this podcast Laird Barron talks about his forthcoming novel Blood Standard, the connection between horror and crime fiction, violence in horror, and much more. Original photo credit: Henry Stampfel About Laird Barron Laird Barron, an ex-pat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 Jan 2018

TheRitual

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: iO9 have a trailer and short feature article, ahead of the Netflix release of The Ritual, in mid-February The New York Times explore the truth behind the new horror movie, Winchester, …

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Book Review: Hardened Hearts, edited by Eddie Generous

Hardened Hearts, edited by Eddie Generous - cover

“A brave anthology which does away with binary concepts of gender, love and sex, instead presenting the reader with love that is realistic, heartfelt, though at times, naturally, stepping into the fantastical.” Hardened Hearts begins with a foreward by James Newman (Animosity, Ugly as Sin) where he describes love, with assistance from a number of …

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