Look Out For … Six Scary Stories selected by Stephen King

Look Out For … Six Scary Stories selected by Stephen King “The stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water, or counting the spots on a leopard.” Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and …

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TIH 124: Ray Cluley on Authentic Storytelling, Researching Locations and Short Story Writing

TIH 124 Ray Cluley on Authentic Storytelling, Researching Locations and Short Story Writing

In this podcast Ray Cluley talks about full-time and part-time writing, authentic storytelling, research for stories and much more. About Ray Cluley Ray Cluley has been published in Black Static, Interzone and Crimewave from TTA Press, Shadows & Tall Trees from Undertow Press, and Icarus from Lethe Press, as well as featuring in a variety of anthologies. …

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Injured Eyeballs: Old Time Radio Horror

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This month, it’s time to dim the lights and gather around the wireless for a midnight broadcast, as we look back on an age when some of the scariest stories ever written went out over the radio waves. When a whole nation was enthralled and appalled by Old Time Radio Horror. Old Time Radio, also …

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Book Review: Odd Man Out by James Newman

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“In the end we all bleed red.” Summer, 1989, The Black Mountain Camp for boys should be a place to make friends, go splashing in the lake and sit around campfires and create those bonds and memories that could last a lifetime. Part of that is true, but the memories that revisit Dennis are not …

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