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Interview: Michael Kelly

  • January 18, 2013

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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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Interview: Simon Maginn

  • January 17, 2013

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What first attracted you to horror writing? I think the thing that first really grabbed my attention was The Amityville Horror (1979). I’d be about eighteen, and I was deeply fascinated by the dark house, the bad place: the grim outline on the hill in Psycho, the labyrinthine nightmare of Gormenghast, the abandoned pier in …

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Interview: ∆AIMON

  • January 14, 2013

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What was the first soundtrack or composition that you listened to and how did it affect you? I think the first soundtrack I really paid attention to was either John Carpenter’s Christine or Prince of Darkness. His use of minimal synth pads and re-occurring themes to evoke suspense really inspired me to explore atmospheric and …

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Interview: Ronald Kelly

  • January 4, 2013

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Ronald Kelly’s unique brand of Southern-fried horror include such novels as The Dark’Un, Undertaker’s Moon, Fear, and Hell Hollow, as well short story collections like Cumberland Furnace, Midnight Grinding, The Sick Stuff, and After the Burn. He lives in a backwoods hollow in Brush Creek, Tennessee with his wife and three young’uns. Keep on reading…

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