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TIH 184: Jasper Bark on Quiet Places, The Way of the Barefoot Zombie, and Cosmic vs Folk Horror

December 27, 2017
4 mins to read

In this podcast Jasper Bark talks about Quiet Places, The Way of the Barefoot Zombie, Cosmic vs Folk Horror, and much more. About Jasper Bark Jasper Bark is an award-winning novelist, children’s author and comic book writer. Famed for his imaginative storytelling he’s published four novels, twelve children’s books and countless comics and graphic novels. His work …

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Book Review: Splatterpunk: Fighting Back, edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power

December 26, 2017
6 mins to read

“These stories are Splatterpunk to the core, each gory and disturbing yet hold a lesson within the pools of blood and piles of guts.” Splatterpunk Fighting Back is a charity anthology of extreme awesomeness. The stories are brutal, and in true splatterpunk form they gruesomely display a middle finger to society while casting the reader …

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Book Review: The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror by William Meikle

December 22, 2017
8 mins to read

“Take a seat at the dinner table, but be warned … the price for your presence there will haunt you.” The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror is a very interesting premise for a collection. It’s supposed to be a hidden book of tales written by history’s greatest storytellers who were a …

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Portugal’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Quinta das Lágrimas

December 21, 2017
4 mins to read

Quinta das Lágrimas (the palace of tears) is a huge royal palace, now functioning as a five-star spa hotel, but peel back the skin and you will discover something altogether darker. Located on the edge of the city of Coimbra and likely built sometime in the 13th century, the palace played host to a number …