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The Cutting Room – Viral

June 30, 2016
2 mins to read

Teenaged sisters Emma and Stacey live a normal life, until their small suburban neighbourhood is stricken with a mysterious parasitic virus. As the disease rapidly spreads throughout the town, the two band together to barricade themselves from infection. But it may already to be too late—when the virus enters their home, the sisters are faced …

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Let’s Play a Game: The Evolution of Fear in Video Games

June 28, 2016
7 mins to read

With Resident Evil 7 preparing to lurch its way into our living rooms early 2017, This Is Horror looks at how horror and genre themes have established themselves in video games. In this first part, we look back thirty years to the earliest generation of gaming and find that as long as there have been …

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Book Review: The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman

June 28, 2016
6 mins to read

“The Suicide Motor Club is Buehlman’s best work to date and one of the best vampire novels to come along since Salem’s Lot.” Vampires have long been a fascination among readers and authors alike, ranging from Stoker’s classic Dracula to Stephen King’s exemplary Salem’s Lot and stopping at all points in between with Anne Rice’s …

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TIH 099: Paul Tremblay on 500 Words per Day, Self-doubt and Inspiration

June 27, 2016
3 mins to read

In this podcast Paul Tremblay talks about writing 500 words daily, self-doubt and the inspiration behind A Head Full of Ghosts. About Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay is the author of the novels Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts. His other novels include The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey’s …