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Book Review: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

April 24, 2015
8 mins to read

“Trigger Warning contains some of the best stories that this Gaiman has written.” Neil Gaiman is a writer who needs no introduction, a writer whose work is as distinctive as any in speculative fiction. Most readers of his new collection, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, will come to it knowing roughly what to expect – …

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The Cutting Room: The Enfield Haunting

April 23, 2015
2 mins to read

The Enfield Haunting August 1977. A family living in a council house in the Enfield area of London are subjected to bizarre and terrifying events that bear the hallmarks of poltergeist activity. A rookie paranormal researcher and an experienced but sceptical investigator join forces to get to the bottom of the mystery. Why we’re looking …

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Book Review: Carus & Mitch by Tim Major

April 23, 2015
4 mins to read

“An intimate, original and character-driven take on the post-apocalyptic genre” The eponymous characters of Carus & Mitch, from Oxford-based writer Tim Major, are two sisters living alone in a house somewhere in Northern Britain, having fled from an apocalyptic disaster. Each day is spent following a routine laid out by their deceased mother: collect the …

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Film review: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

April 22, 2015
4 mins to read

“The underdeveloped sum of its parts falls considerably short of what promised to be an electrifying 86 minutes of meta-horror.” Intelligently sidestepping the mindless copycat fodder of atypical remakes, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon displays some refreshing originality with The Town That Dreaded Sundown in referencing both the 1976 original and the notorious string of real-life killings …