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News Round-up Week Ending 24 November

November 24, 2013
2 mins to read

Something is lurking… DarkFuse have announced the release of Gary Fry’s new novella Lurker. A story of grief, loss and evil, the novella is available now as an eBook from the DarkFuse website. Scavengers heads to DVD In a far away corner of the galaxy, a small crew battle for the fate of humanity in …

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My Top 10 Horror Stories by Stephen Jones

November 22, 2013
12 mins to read

Stephen Jones and Neil Gaiman at the Fearie Tales launch at the World Fantasy Convention photo by Peter Coleborn

Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and prolific anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, has edited the magnificent Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome for Jo Fletcher Books. Over the years he’s read literally tens of thousands of stories from writers both old and new, and so we knew we were setting him a …

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Dreams and Hannibal

November 21, 2013
6 mins to read

When I was seventeen I had a pair of uncommonly disturbing dreams. I typically don’t remember much about my dreams at all, even the stand-out ones. These two dreams remain vivid in my mind, 18 years later. The first dream is very short and feels very cinematic to me. I’m driving a pickup truck in …

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Frightfest 2013 Film Review: R.I.P.D.

November 21, 2013
3 mins to read

“This is definitely Jeff Bridges’ film. He chews so much scenery that he’ll be shitting green-screens for years to come.” Based on the Dark Horse comic books of the same name, R.I.P.D. is the story of gunned-down detective, Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds), and his placement in an afterlife police force, the Rest In Peace Department. …