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News Round-up Week Ending 29 July 2016

Road Games

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Road Games Gets DVD, VOD and Digital Release Horror thriller Road Games has been set for release on DVD, download and VOD for this August. Featuring a young couple hitchhiking through the French countryside, Road Games sees …

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Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond

cosmic fiction

Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond. The Weird Renaissance. We hear that phrase thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? A renaissance is generally defined as a situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long …

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Book Review: Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality; or, Searching for Andy Kaufman by T. Fox Dunham

Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality cover

“What he calls the most important words he’s written may also be some of the most important words you’ll read, a song of mortality and a celebration of life that resonates in the heart and mind long after the final note is played.” The first thing you might think upon reading T Fox Dunham’s groundbreaking …

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Interview: John F. D. Taff on Writing, Horror Fiction, and Why He’s Called the King of Pain

John FD Taff

Though he’s been called an overnight success by some, John F. D. Taff has been writing dark fiction, primarily in the short form, for more than 25 years now, with stories appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies, including  Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Morpheus Tales, Deathrealm, Schrodinger’s Mouse, Night Chills, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, …

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