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

  • May 19, 2016

  • 9 mins to read

Foggy Sea at Dawn

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 …

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Can I Play With Madness? A Look at Horror Collectibles.

  • May 18, 2016

  • 8 mins to read

Can I Play With Madness? A Look at Horror Collectibles. A fan’s love of the horror genre is usually shown via their extensive DVD or VHS collections, their breadth of knowledge—however obscure—or the classic posters that proudly adorn their walls. But there is another way of feeling more connected to the universes depicted on screen, …

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Book Review: Tribulations by Richard Thomas

  • May 18, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Tribulations cover

“ Tribulations is a must-read collection of brilliantly sculpted emotion and passion that will leave you exhausted yet unable to close your eyes.” Instinctually, we associate the word horror with crimson blood, high-pitched screams, guts and gore, monsters, but that’s only because that’s what we’ve been fed over the years. It’s a challenge to escape …

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Look Out For… The Fireman by Joe Hill and Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

  • May 17, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… The Fireman by Joe Hill “An imaginative, sprawling, muscular beast of a novel.” Nobody knew where the virus came from. FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated it might’ve been created by engineers at …

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