Interview: Paul Hyett and Rosie Day (Howl)

  • October 14, 2015

  • 6 mins to read

Paul Hyett is better known for his FX work in cult horror classic The Descent, but 2015 has seen him release his second title as director after debuting with The Seasoning House in 2012. Howl follows an eclectic mix of characters as they battle through the night to survive against one of horror’s most ancient …

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Look Out For… Songs Of A Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti and Dead Leaves by Andrew David Barker

  • October 13, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… Songs Of A Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti “Ligotti’s work seems to exist in its own reality, at a tangent to our own.” Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.  Influenced by the strange terrors …

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Meet the Writer Interview: Robert Hood

  • October 13, 2015

  • 9 mins to read

Australian author Robert Hood’s long career in the fantasy/horror/SF/crime genres has produced over 160 stories, many of them re-printed in his four collections, the most recent being Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories (IFWG Publishing Australia, 2015). His novels include Backstreets, the supernatural YA Shades series, and an epic dark fantasy novel, Fragments of a …

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TV Review: The Green Man (1990)

  • October 13, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

“The Green Man is an original combination of traditional ghost story and dark sex comedy.” The Green Man is an early nineties BBC mini-series based on Kingsley Amis’s novel of the same name. The three part adaptation is largely faithful to the source material; those unfamiliar with the novel might be expecting The Wicker Man …

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