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Guidelines? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guidelines

November 18, 2015
11 mins to read

Um, yeah, you do. Confession: I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I have nine million irons in the fire right now, in the form of columns to write as well as reviews and my own fiction. Also, Fallout 4 hits this month. And Battlefront. So there’s that. Don’t let my nonparticipation in anyway discourage you …

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Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane and Thinking Horror

November 17, 2015
4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane “The Rim Of Morning demonstrates Sloane’s skill at building an atmosphere of tension and dread.” In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry …

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Book Review: The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth

November 17, 2015
5 mins to read

“An absolutely necessary read for anyone with even the slightest interest in the fantastic or the macabre.” This collaboration between two of Britain’s finest fantasy and horror authors, Kilworth and Holdstock, has long been hard to find: now, courtesy of Infinity Plus, it’s available as an ebook. Holdstock’s roots were in science fiction, but he’s …

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Film Review: Video Nasties Night: Ban this Filth! Cube Cinema, Bristol, 16.09.15

November 17, 2015
7 mins to read

“They’re ridiculous and they shouldn’t be as effective as they are. But then again, perhaps that’s why some Video Nasties are still so fascinating to this day” To celebrate the Blu-ray release of Joe D’Amato’s legendary 1980 Nasty-piece, Anthropophagus (also known in some circles as The Savage Island, Zombie 7, and the shockingly, offensively fellatial …