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News Round-up Week Ending 27 June

June 27, 2014
2 mins to read

FrightFest tickets available soon FrightFest tickets go on sale on Saturday 28 June. The tickets will be available in person from 10am at the Vue West End Cinema in Leicester Square, London. Tickets will also be available online and over the phone from noon onward for those that can’t make it in person. For full details …

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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

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 …