News Round-up Week Ending 24 April

  • April 24, 2015

  • 2 mins to read
Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell honoured British horror legend Ramsey Campbell has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding contribution to literature. The Liverpool born author has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Stoker Awards and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award in his long and distinguished career. Walter …

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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

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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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