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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 December 2013

December 23, 2013
4 mins to read

It’s that time of year again; the time for pulling toilet-paper tubes covered in gold paper because it’s tradition, a time when you don’t think twice about catching herpes beneath a hemi-parasitic plant because it’s the done thing, and a time when we all casually await a fat man who may or may not make …

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My Top 10 Horror Stories by Stephen Jones

November 22, 2013
12 mins to read

Stephen Jones and Neil Gaiman at the Fearie Tales launch at the World Fantasy Convention photo by Peter Coleborn

Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and prolific anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, has edited the magnificent Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome for Jo Fletcher Books. Over the years he’s read literally tens of thousands of stories from writers both old and new, and so we knew we were setting him a …

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News Round-up Week Ending 15 November

November 15, 2013
3 mins to read

It’s grim up North… Abaddon Books have announced the release of Ritual Crime Unit: Under The Skin by EE. Richardson. The book is the first in a series of urban fantasy police procedural novels featuring hard-nosed Northern policewoman DCI Pierce. The book is available now across a wide variety of formats. Devil in the Woods …

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Creepshow

October 30, 2013
10 mins to read

Growing up on the outskirts of a small Northern shipyard town in the 1980s I didn’t get much opportunity to read the sort of gruesome, blood-soaked comics for which my dark heart longed. My father never threw my horror comics in the trash because I didn’t have any. In fact given the proclivity of my …