Tag: horror

Book Review: Strangers by David Moody

  • December 18, 2014

  • 4 mins to read

“Dark, disturbing and visceral.” After releasing his superb Autumn novel back in 2001 David Moody became known as the premier British zombie writer, which is no bad thing given his innovative and intelligent take on the genre, but as he’s been keen to display in the last few years, there’s much more to Moody than …

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Film Review: The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

  • December 15, 2014

  • 5 mins to read

“The Purge: Anarchy is a natural expansion of the first film which unfortunately proves too unwieldy for the director to keep a hold of!” The Purge: Anarchy is the new film from James DeMonaco and is the follow-up to the 2013 hit, The Purge. As with the original film, the central concept remains; for a …

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Rocky Wood – Horror’s Gunslinger (1959–2014)

  • December 8, 2014

  • 4 mins to read
Rocky Wood

Rocky Wood (1959–2014) was the fifteenth president of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Rocky passed away as a result of complications from Motor Neurone Disease (MND), also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease, on 1 December 2014. He was first diagnosed with the progressive disease in October 2010. No one expected him to leave us …

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TIH 022: Horror and Comedy with Jasper Bark and David James Keaton

  • November 28, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

In this podcast we sit down with two award-winning authors, Jasper Bark and David James Keaton, to discuss horror, comedy and the link between the two. Topics [02:22] Interview starts and participants de-robe (yes, you read that right) [04:55] The physicality of horror and humour [07:38] The Thai cooking analogy [12:24] Psycho [17:45] Worst date …

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