News Round-up Week Ending 17 July

  • July 17, 2015

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R.I.P. Tom Piccirilli It is with great sadness that This Is Horror reports the passing of horror author Tom Piccirilli. The multiple Stoker award winning novelist, short story writer and poet passed away earlier this week at the age of just fifty years old. The thoughts of the staff at This Is Horror are with …

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The Cutting Room: The Confession of Fred Krueger

  • July 16, 2015

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The world knows of the legacy of child killer Freddy Krueger thanks to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequels of varying quality, but every story has a beginning and now we’re being taken back to the time of the original crimes to see what turned Frederick Charles Kruger into the Springwood …

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Injured Eyeballs: Who the Fuck is Michael McDowell? Part 1

  • July 15, 2015

  • 17 mins to read

You remember those kids at school, who were into whatever band you were into before you, before anyone in fact? Who would roll their eyes at you when you mentioned the band, as if the simple fact of you being into them meant they weren’t worth being into anymore, because you were so behind the …

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Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner and I Know Who Did It by Steve Mosby

  • July 14, 2015

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Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner “You can never tell what is going to happen in a Cate Gardner story.” You’re not the first to talk to your dead here, the vagrant said. The living always chase after their dead until they come upon their own. Formed from shadow and dust, …

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