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News Round-up Week Ending 10 January

January 10, 2014
2 mins to read

Crystal Lake go Barking mad Crystal Lake Publishing have announced the release of a new book Stuck On You and Other Prime Cuts, by none other than This Is Horror’s own Jasper Bark. Although there is no release date yet, some of the fantastic artwork from Rob Moran should whet your appetite for Bark’s most …

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Meet The Writer Interview: Marc Pastor

January 9, 2014
6 mins to read

Marc Pastor works as a crime-scene investigator in Barcelona, where he has lived all his life. He has written four novels: Montecristo, Barcelona Shadows, L’any de la plaga and Bioko. His critically acclaimed work spans a range of genres, from Sci-Fi to Gothic, via the adventure novel. Barcelona Shadows is his first book published in English. Barcelona Shadows by Marc …

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Book Review: The Monster Club by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

January 8, 2014
5 mins to read

“Buy the book.” Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was regularly one of the top ten authors whose work was borrowed from British libraries throughout the seventies – so says Stephen Jones in his excellent introduction. In fact Jones does such a thorough job it leaves this reviewer with nothing new to say about the man or his work …

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A Warning to the Curious

January 7, 2014
11 mins to read

A natural enough follow-up to my previous column might have been to look at the work of Edgar Allan Poe, but a comment from David Surface last month got me thinking about M. R. James and, what with it being Christmas as I write this, well, it seems silly not to look at James instead. …