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News Round-up Week Ending 15 July 2016

July 15, 2016
5 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Dark Regions Press Release The Booking by Ramsey Campbell The long awaited novella by the veteran genre author, The Booking, was released this past Tuesday 12 July. Available as a special edition hard back from Dark Regions …

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Let’s Play a Game – The Evolution of Fear in Video Games, Part II

July 15, 2016
8 mins to read

Continuing on from our previous piece on early horror themes in video games, This is Horror moves on to look at how the creepy, the startling and the downright gory began to fill gamers’ screens as the 16-bit console and PC revolution firmly took hold. A New Age of Atmosphere Before the age of 16-bit …

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TOD A15 Gemma Files: Every Movie Is a Ghost Story

July 14, 2016
8 mins to read

In this archival podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Gemma Files, author of the Shirley Jackson Award-winning novel Experimental Film. It was recorded on October 11, 2015 and originally aired on October 13, 2015. Show Notes Gemma Files goes behind the lens of her new standalone horror novel Experimental Film, its roots in her background as a film critic who has …

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The Cutting Room – Bed of the Dead

July 14, 2016
2 mins to read

A gruesome and bizarre romp about curious couples at a haunted sex club who find themselves imprisoned on a massive and massively evil mattress. Why we’re looking forward to this: Yes, it’s another one of those movies that part of you knows you really should avoid like the plague, but has such a preposterous premise …