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Ghost Tours: Alone in the Asylum

August 17, 2016
10 mins to read

Alone in buildings in a haunted lunatic asylum? Really? Someone does that by choice? Walks around a haunted 1800s lunatic asylum on their own, with very little in the way of lighting and a heap of ghost-hunting equipment? Yep. Seems I do that. It all started about six weeks ago. “Go and do a live-feed …

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Interview: Josh Malerman, Part I – Songwriting, Horror Fiction, and Rock and Roll

August 17, 2016
17 mins to read

Josh Malerman is an individual who needs little introduction to the horror community at large. His novel, Bird Box, is one of the most remarkable and unique visions of a post-apocalyptic world that’s ever been penned, and it’s also one of the best debut novels to come along in recent years. That book received high …

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Book Review: The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey

August 16, 2016
5 mins to read

“It is, quite simply, pure art, and we can only wonder what works this writer will produce in the coming years.” Readers looking for the best in horror fiction should keep their eyes on the recent, stellar offerings of the small press. The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey is one such release that recently caught …

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Look Out For … Crooked by Austin Grossman and Something Remains

August 16, 2016
5 mins to read

Look Out For … Crooked by Austin Grossman “Crooked is a tragicomedy combining political intrigue and Lovecraftian monstrosities.” This is the story of the great con game that was the late twentieth century, of American history’s worst presidency, of how I learned to lie. It is not history as you know it. There are at …