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News Round-up Week Ending 19 August 2016

August 19, 2016
5 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… First The Dark Tower Footage To Air In October Although filming has been completed on the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower there’s still a way to go before its release on 17 February 2017. …

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Book Review: Lost Signals, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle

August 19, 2016
9 mins to read

“ The end result is a themed anthology that consistently tunes the frequency to the fear channel, then cranks the volume up to eleven.” There are signals all around us, flowing through us. Most are undetected, though occasionally, we are on the receiving end of a transmission that alters our very lives. These lost signals …

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The Cutting Room: 31

August 18, 2016
2 mins to read

A camper van of carnival workers are kidnapped in the middle of nowhere by a trio of debauched decadents. Set loose in a derelict factory compound full of creepy passages containing nasty traps, the abductors led by Father Murder place bets on who will survive the longest in a 12-hour period of pain and maim …

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Book Review: I Can Taste the Blood edited by John F. D. Taff and Anthony Rivera

August 18, 2016
8 mins to read

“I Can Taste the Blood is a tour de force for Grey Matter Press and for the five outstanding dark fiction authors gathered here.” Any time you see the name John F. D. Taff coupled with the words “short fiction” you can expect that you’re in for something special, and the same can be said …