Film Review: Afflicted (2014)

• November 12, 2014

• 5 mins to read

“Afflicted is a good little horror film. It’s smart and a lot of fun.“ When Jason Lee (played by Afflicted’s writer-director Jason Lee) discovers he has a life-threatening brain aneurysm, he decides it’s time to live his dream of making a year-long trip around the world. Accompanying him to chronicle the journey is his bosom …

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Book Review: The Spectral Book of Horror Stories (Edited by Mark Morris)

• November 12, 2014

• 14 mins to read

“Near exemplary selection of stories.” Opening story ‘On the Tour’, by Godfather of the UK horror scene Ramsey Campbell, is the perfect way to start the collection and lays down a significant marker in terms of quality. A down on his luck man, who had been a Beatles-era musician, becomes obsessed with the hope that …

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Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory

• November 11, 2014

• 3 mins to read

Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory ‘Themes and ideas linger long in the mind.’ Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store …

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