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News Round-up Week Ending 16 June 2017

June 16, 2017
3 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Poetry collection No Mercy by Alessandro Manzetti coming soon from Crystal Lake From Crystal Lake Publishing comes the intensely dark new poetry collection, No Mercy. Not content with winning the Bram Stoker award for his prose, Manzetti has …

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Injured Eyeballs 35: To Boldly Go Where No Bloch Has Gone Before

June 16, 2017
15 mins to read

The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …

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TIH 151: Philip Fracassi on Horror as Escapism, Hollywood Screenwriting, and Literary vs. Genre Fiction

June 15, 2017
4 mins to read

In this podcast Philip Fracassi talks about horror as escapism, Hollywood screenwriting, literary fiction, and much more. About Philip Fracassi Philip Fracassi, an author and screenwriter, lives in Los Angeles. His brand-new collection of stories, Behold The Void, was published by JournalStone on March 10, 2017. He has a novella, Fragile Dreams, that was released in …

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Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne

June 15, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne “Some of the most disturbing examples of horror are those closest to home. The Upstairs Room is another such exercise in terror.” Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy their dream home, a four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in …