News Round-up Week Ending 9 January

  • January 9, 2015

  • 3 mins to read
Probably Monsters

FantasyCon 2015 announces Guests of Honour FantasyCon 2015, which is being held this year at East Midlands Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel from 23 to 25 October, have now announced two of their guests of honour. This year’s convention, run by the British Fantasy Society, will host best-selling author and journalist, John Connolly and genre …

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The Cutting Room: Friday The 13th

  • January 8, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Friday The 13th Jason Vorhees returns to terrorise more young adults who have had the misfortune to rock up to Camp Crystal Lake (or whatever it’s called these days). Expect running, screaming and teens being despatched in an ever increasing variety of ways. Why we’re looking forward to this: Stop anybody in the street and …

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This Is Horror Awards 2014: Vote now!

  • January 6, 2015

  • 11 mins to read

It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2014 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2014 Votes’. To cast a vote simply write the category and your vote for each award. You may vote for your top two in each category. For example: Award 1. …

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TIH 025: Richard Thomas on The Do’s and Don’ts of Short Story Writing

  • January 6, 2015

  • 8 mins to read

In this podcast Richard Thomas talks about horror writing in Transylvania, sending our horror fiction and what you should and shouldn’t do when writing short stories.  About Richard Thomas Richard Thomas is the author of six books—Disintegration and The Breaker (Random House Alibi), Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications), and two short story collections, Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken …

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