Tag: horror

Religion Won’t Save You: Religious Tropes in Horror Films

  • November 14, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Ask anyone to explain a link between religion and horror movies and you’ll undoubtedly hear a large number of replies citing the use of crosses to ward off vampires. But, the genre is so heavily laced with religious sub-plots and analogies, it goes much deeper than Van Helsing brandishing a representation of where Jesus was …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/religion-wont-save-you-religious-tropes-in-horror-films/

Review: From Hell To Eternity by Thana Niveau

  • November 13, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Ramsey Campbell, a man who needs no introduction unless you have been comatose since the mid-70s, kicks this collection off with an endorsement for the many talented female authors out there. In a world where positive discrimination is still largely present in literature, he lists Sarah Pinborough, Alison Littlewood, Caitlin Kiernan, and a host of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/review-from-hell-to-eternity-by-thana-niveau/

Interview: Megazanthus Press

  • November 13, 2012

  • 1 min to read

DF Lewis has been a regular contributor to the small presses since the 1980s with many hundreds of short stories to his name (see his now out-of-print collection Weirdmonger and The Last Balcony, recently published by Inkermen Press).  In recent years, however, he has turned his attention to publishing other writers’ short stories, first with …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/interview-megazanthus-press/

The rise of Australian horror and the Oz Horror Mini-con

  • November 12, 2012

  • 1 min to read

We’ve had a first here in Australia this month. Our first single-genre horror convention, the Oz Horror Mini-con was a pre-cursor to the main Oz Horror Con 2013, to be held in January in Melbourne. Previously we’ve had multi-genre conventions, not least of all AussieCon 4 and World Con back in 2010. That was a …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/the-rise-of-australian-horror-and-the-oz-horror-mini-con/