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News Round-up Week Ending 24 June 2016

June 24, 2016
6 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… How The Walking Dead Plans To Keep That Big Death Under Wraps (Spoilers follow, so look away now if you’re not up to date.) There was much moaning among Walking Dead fans at the recent season six …

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The Cutting Room – Westworld

June 23, 2016
2 mins to read

A lawyer and businessman are among the visitors to Westworld, a futuristic theme park where the gunhands and dance hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests’ violent and lustful fantasies—until something goes wrong with their circuitry. No longer the guests’ obliging victim, a black-clad humanoid gunslinger turns on the two heroes and …

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The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful

June 22, 2016
6 mins to read

The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful The following article covers the end of the television series Penny Dreadful, and while it does not go into any great detail, it does contain spoilers concerning the series finale. Readers are encouraged to proceed with caution. After three seasons, Showtime and Sky’s production of …

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Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson and The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women

June 21, 2016
5 mins to read

Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson “Thompson combines the breakneck pace of the best thrillers with the dark atmospherics of horror, with the result being distinctively his own.” When a policeman accidentally runs over a young boy on a fog-shrouded street in Saginaw, Michigan, it thrusts three families into a head-on …