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News Round-up Week Ending 19 July

July 19, 2013
3 mins to read

Solaris to publish Stourton Solaris are pleased to announce that they will be publishing Ivo Stourton’s debut genre novel The Happier Dead in 2014.The story is set in a futuristic London where an exclusive health spa hides dark secrets… Laird Barron caught in the Undertow Undertow Publications have announced that Laird Barron, author of The …

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Film Review: The Brood (1979)

July 16, 2013
10 mins to read

Exactly what UK fans of The Brood have been waiting for! At last! David Cronenberg’s classic 1979 body horror picture (his third after having made Shivers and Rabid) receives the treatment it deserves on UK blu-ray and DVD. It’s been a long time coming but hopefully, as this review will reveal, it’s been worth the …

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Audiobook Review: Spanish Girls by Paul Magrs

July 16, 2013
2 mins to read

A fun and entertaining black comedy! The plot of this story is fairly simplistic, and the characters are sketched in pretty broad strokes – and rather similar to the mother and son serial killers from the TV series Psychoville (right down to the son’s Harry H. Corbett accent) – but that doesn’t detract from some …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 15 July 2013

July 15, 2013
4 mins to read

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Digging into Horror’s Final Girl Trope Clive Barker in Comics Part V: IDW and The Thief of Always The 10 Greatest Giant Monster Movies of All Time French …