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Done to Death: Five Horror Clichés to Avoid in Your Fiction

September 16, 2020
8 mins to read

Writers are often told to write what we know, which isn’t bad advice, necessarily. But one of the things we know are other stories, and when we first start out, we imitate the stories we’ve read and admired—whether consciously or not—and in the process often end up repeating what’s been done before. Shared ideas, character …

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News Round-up Week Ending 11 September 2020

September 11, 2020
6 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Where We Live, a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by Tim Cooke, out now from Demain Publishing ‘Where We Live’ is a collection of loosely connected short stories that track the same central character’s …

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Look Out For … Helena by Claire L. Smith

September 10, 2020
3 mins to read

“This novella, both historical and relevant to current times, combines the ghostly with the very real horror of a rampant serial killer, just in time for the creepy Halloween season.” Near London in 1855, Helena Morrigan is tormented by poverty and the burdens of her past. A mortician and funeral director, she resides in an …

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Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

September 9, 2020
7 mins to read

Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower “Hightower strikes the perfect balance between horror and drama, sadness and hope, in this tale of tragedy and the purest love.” It has been a busy couple of years for author Laurel Hightower since the publication of first novel Whispers in the Dark (Journalstone, 2018). Not only has …