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News Round-up Week Ending 3 April

April 3, 2015
3 mins to read

James Herbert Award picks first winner On Wednesday 1 April, Nick Cutter – pseudonym of the author Craig Davidson, scooped the first annual James Herbert Award for his novel, The Troop. Cutter’s novel won through a strong field including Bird Box by Josh Malerman, M.R. Carey’s The Girl With All The Gifts and Kim Newman’s …

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Book Review: Monolith by Shaun Hutson

April 2, 2015
4 mins to read

“An amalgamation of horror and police-procedural, with a little Jewish mythology tossed in for good measure, there is much fun to be had here.” Shaun Hutson returns with his first original novel in more than five years after penning a trio of modern Hammer novelisations (Twins of Evil, X the Unknown, The Revenge of Frankenstein). …

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Meet The Writer Interview: Glenn Rolfe

April 1, 2015
7 mins to read

Glenn Rolfe is an author from the haunted woods of New England. He studied Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University and continues his education in the world of horror by devouring the novels of Stephen King and Richard Laymon. He and his wife Meghan have three children: Ruby, Ramona, and Axl. He is …

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Terror Tots: Bloody Birthday

April 1, 2015
5 mins to read

On this installment of Terror Tots – the series in which we take a look at some of filmdom’s most obscure and disturbing killer kids – we’re opening the case for Ed Hunt’s 1981 shocker Bloody Birthday. In 1970, three children are simultaneously born to different mothers, under the ominous shade of a solar eclipse. Fast forward …