Less is More: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

  • June 26, 2014

  • 8 mins to read

This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …

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Behind The Sound Interview: Kevin Riepl

  • June 25, 2014

  • 8 mins to read
Cabin Fever Soundtrack Cover

Composer Kevin Riepl will be best known to film fans as the man behind the excellent music to movies such as The Aggression Scale and Silent Night (both directed by Stephen C Miller) and Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (due out next month). He’s also an extremely successful composer of video game scores, and can …

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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle and Touched by Joanna Briscoe

  • June 24, 2014

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!”  When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2014

  • June 23, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …

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