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Meet the Writer Interview: Kristopher Rufty

Kristopher Rufty is the writer/director of the movies Psycho Holocaust, Rags, and Wicked Wood, and also the author of Angel Board, The Night Everything Changed, and The Lurkers. He also hosts Diabolical Radio, an internet radio show devoted to horror fiction and film. The show has been online for nearly five years now and has developed …

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Book Review: The Art of Horrible People by John Skipp

One of the Founding Fathers of Splatterpunk. Head Honcho el Bizarro. Weird Fiction Maestro. John Skipp wears all of these hats, and usually all of them are piled high on top of his head at the same time. He attacks the genres with prose, film, and music. Author of The Light at the End (with …

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Tattered Tomes: Tear My Soul Apart – Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart, Revisted

In 1989, I managed to find a rare paperback of Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart (originally published as Night Visions III: Dark Harvest), edited by George R.R. Martin. Having discovered Ramsey Campbell a few years prior, I was hunting collections of his short stories and hit the jackpot with this paperback. The collection featured Campbell, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 May 2013

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: High Impact, Low Body-Count: Movie Killers Who Put Quality Over Quantity RIP Ray Harryhausen: Ten Of His Best Movie Monsters And Now The Screaming Laughter Starts! (When Your Horror Goes Horribly …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 March 2013

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, where we bring you the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: 10 Horror Movies Based On Actual Events Looking Back At The Book Of The Dead Was James Herbert As Good As Stephen King? These B-Movie Horrors Rate An ‘A’ Ten Top Cabin-In-The-Woods Movies …

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10 Must Read Australian Horror Writers

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott

When I was asked to write something on ten ‘must read’ Aussie horror writers, I thought, “Hell, how can I narrow it down to so few?” I know many, many writers that I consider ‘must read’, both here in Australia and internationally. Well, here they are. In a random order, as well, to avoid being …

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Tales of the Nun and Dragon collected by Adele Wearing

Takes of the Nun and Dragon cover image

Publisher: Fox Spirit Books Kindle (281pp) We all know that nuns and dragons go together like shoes and socks, like salt and pepper, like Buffy and Angel; okay, maybe not, but that’s the premise of this collection from Fox Spirit, and it could have gone so horribly wrong. How many different ways is it possible …

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11 Firsts From Return of the Living Dead

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Return of the Living Dead (ROTLD) was initially envisioned as a straight-up sequel to Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead, with the story even penned by John Russo, who co-wrote the screenplay to the first modern zombie movie. That story was too similar to the original concept however, with the events unfolding in a …

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Meet Jay Eales

Later influences

Meet comic book aficionado Jay Eales: fan, writer, journalist and publisher. He recently moderated a comic-related panel at the 2012 Alt Fiction event, as well as giving a talk about small press comics at the States of Independence event in Leicester. Not to mention recently guest-lecturing a writing class on comic scriptwriting. You could, perhaps, …

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