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News Round-up Week Ending 20 May 2016

May 20, 2016
7 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees Announced The full list of nominees for the 2015 Shirley Jackson awards has been announced. Set to take place on Sunday 10 July at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, …

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Interview: Graham Masterton on Extreme Horror, Forensics and Series Characters

May 20, 2016
9 mins to read

This is Part Two of Simon Bestwick’s interview with Graham Masterton. Masterton is the author of the horror classic, The Manitou, and has recently turned his hand to crime novels. White Bones, set in Ireland, was a Kindle phenomenon, selling over 100,000 copies in a month. This was followed by Broken Angels, Red Light, Taken …

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The Cutting Room – Cargo

May 19, 2016
2 mins to read

Cargo tells the story of a father who, stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic and infected himself, desperately seeks a new home for his infant child and a means to protect her from his own changing nature. Why we’re looking forward to this: Though the zombie genre has arguably been …

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Troubled Waters: Causeways of Shingle, Sand and Ice in Horror Fiction

May 19, 2016
9 mins to read

Over the last few years I have been increasingly drawn to stories about the water. I imagine this is partly due to the fact I live on the coast, with the sea a constant source of wonder and inspiration. Also in the process of writing my novel, Bodies of Water–out now from Salt Publishing–I spent …