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Film Review: Pay The Ghost (2015)

November 3, 2015
6 mins to read

“There’s a more than halfway decent movie here struggling to get out, it’s just buried under too much that lags and drags.” On paper, at least, Pay the Ghost has an impressive pedigree: in addition to the high quality source material in the shape of the excellent novella by Tim Lebbon, it’s directed by the …

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TIH 065: Alison Littlewood on A Cold Silence, Writing and Horror

November 2, 2015
4 mins to read

In this podcast Alison Littlewood talks about A Cold Silence, learning the writing craft and the horror genre. About Alison Littlewood Alison Littlewood was raised in Penistone, South Yorkshire, and went on to attend the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (now Northumbria University). Originally she planned to study graphic design, but “missed the words too much” and …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 November 2015

November 2, 2015
3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Revisiting The Running Man by Richard Chizmar Ramsey Campbell’s ‘Thirteen Novels on the Edge of Horror’ Winding Up the Dark Staircase: A Brief Survey of Haunted Houses On The Babadook, It Follows, …

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Grimmfest 2015

October 30, 2015
8 mins to read

For horror fans up in the north of England, and arguably across the country Grimmfest is an unmissable line-up of some of the best upcoming and ‘ones to watch’ of the genre. This years event once again saw some of films biggest and best showcase of horror films from across the globe, including Manchester film …