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 …

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Book Review: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

• April 22, 2015

• 5 mins to read

“The beauty of A Head Full of Ghosts is that there are a number of possible interpretations of the events and that the conclusions drawn by one reader may be very different to those drawn by another.” Those of a certain age will remember a brilliant, unnerving live television event that was broadcast by the …

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