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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: You’re Next

September 29, 2013
4 mins to read

“Pitch-black humour, gory deaths and enough twists and turns to keep you satisfied throughout!” After releasing 2010’s okay but unspectacular A Horrible Way To Die and the ‘Tape 56’ short in V/H/S, anticipation is decidedly mixed for Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. Yet what we are presented with is hands-down the best film of the opening …

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Music for European Zombies, Slashers and Lord Dagon Himself

September 27, 2013
6 mins to read

My very first column for This Is Horror, back in December 2011, was about collecting horror movie soundtracks. It was my intention, way back then, to revisit the subject with some regularity, and yet here we are in September 2013 and I still have yet to say anything more about one of the most vital …

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News Round-up Week Ending 27 September

September 27, 2013
2 mins to read

The Unquiet House is nearby The cover art for Alison Littlewood’s forthcoming novel The Unquiet House has been released by Jo Fletcher Books. The haunted house novel is stated for release in March 2014. In the meantime you can hear Alison read at the next This Is Horror event in Coventry on 5 October. For …

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Book Review: Holes for Faces by Ramsey Campbell

September 26, 2013
5 mins to read

“Deserves to be in any discerning horror fan’s library!” “Future generations will regard (Ramsey Campbell) as the leading horror writer of our generation,” S T Joshi is quoted as saying on the cover of this latest short story collection from “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. It would probably be possible to write an entire …