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Book Review: Muscadines by S.P. Miskowski

October 24, 2016
5 mins to read

“Its Southern Gothic aesthetic is filled with allusion, and with suggestion, allowing for a measure of interpretation. And yet where it defines its darker aspects, it does so with both restraint and power.” Muscadines are a type of grape, native to the south-eastern and south-central regions of America, and are also often used in the …

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News Round-up Week Ending 21 October 2016

October 21, 2016
2 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … John Carpenter Live In London Revered as a director of genre classics like Halloween, The Thing and The Fog, John Carpenter is also an accomplished and celebrated musician and composer and is performing music from his …

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Every Day is Halloween

October 21, 2016
6 mins to read

“Well I live with snakes and lizards And other things that go bump in the night Cos to me everyday is Halloween I have given up hiding and started to fight I have started to fight” —Ministry Halloween, 2016 edition. In the Year of the Reaper, Halloween is a welcome diversion as we gear up …

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Book Review: Blood Crime by Sebastia Alzamora

October 21, 2016
6 mins to read

“The author doesn’t sugarcoat anything and the story is made that much more horrific by the brutal atrocities committed by the worst monsters of all: the human ones.” Soho Crime is an imprint that’s been doing some pretty impressive work for a while now. They publish a lot of international authors, some of them to …