News Round-up Week Ending 28 June

Sleepers

Angry Robot announce new author Angry Robot have announced that they have signed up former Spin City actor Michael Boatman to a two book deal. Boatman will produce the novels Last God Standing (Spring 2014) and Who Wants to be the Prince of Darkness? (2015) over the next two years. Horror Channel go howling mad …

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Path of Needles by Alison Littlewood

Alison Littlewood burst into the mainstream when her debut novel, A Cold Season, was selected as part of Richard and Judy’s 2012 Book Club and found itself in supermarket aisles and bookshop window displays. It was a supremely paced and engrossing book with an exemplary sense of atmosphere and location, but, Path of Needles is …

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The Ravenglass Eye by Tom Fletcher

If we here at This Is Horror composed our copy with quill and parchment or typewriter and paper, then the discarded attempts at reviewing The Ravenglass Eye would have required a fleet of bin lorries to transport them away. The novel provides a satisfying and gripping narrative but putting your finger on precisely why it …

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Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!

With the UK release of World War Z imminent, and the US Encyclopedia of the Zombie forthcoming (that I’ve written some essays for, namely on Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, Hammer’s Plague of the Zombies and the Phantasm series of films), I’ve been on a bit of a zombie movie re-watch recently. The zombie has always been …

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