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Who invented horror comics?

January 28, 2013
2 mins to read

I was a guest on James DC’s excellent Atomic Bark show on Resonance FM recently. The theme of the show was EC and pre-code horror comics – that wonderful cavalcade of quickly drawn, anonymously written and often badly printed horror comics that flourished for five brief years in the 1950s before the creation of the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 28 January 2013

January 28, 2013
4 mins to read

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, where we bring you the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Edgar Allan Poe and the Cult of the Unusual 20 facts about The Thing that might leave you suspiciously eyeing your dog The feature that dripped blood – Horror Anthologies Land of Shadow …

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Interview: Michael Kelly

January 18, 2013
1 min to read

What first attracted you to horror writing? Charles Beaumont! I spotted a book called The Howling Man in a bookshop while browsing. I picked it up and read Beaumont’s bio. He’d scripted a number of episodes of The Twilight Zone, which I loved, of course. Keep on reading…

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News Round-up Week Ending 18 January

January 18, 2013
2 mins to read

Grimm Up North Double Bills Grimm Up North bring January to a close with a trio of excellent double bills in Manchester. They include Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left on 23 January, Towerblock and Hollow on 26 January and Mon Ami and Chop on 31 January. Tickets are available from the Grimm Up North website. We Are Monsters Takes Shape US …