It Ruined My Life… Paul Tremblay
A short story changed my life. No, really, it did. I was twenty one years old and in my final semester at college. One of the last undergraduate courses I took was an intro to…
Horror
Laird Barron – Swift to Chase (Journal Stone)
What would happen if H.P. Lovecraft was a writer now instead of a century ago? I think Laird Barron may be the answer. His prose is vivid and his story lines swoop and dive yet…
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Slugs (Arrow Video)
As a teenager I consumed books like Slugs, by Shaun Hutson, which were basically tasteless exercises in excess and gore that totally appealed to my warped sense of humour and love of video nasties. There…
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NEW TALES OF TERROR FROM THE MASTER OF HORROR
The master of horror returns to Dark Horse! For nearly fifty years, Richard Corben (Rat God, Ragemoor, Creepy, Eerie) has been terrifying readers with his unique visions of the macabre and the horrific. On December…
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The Sand (Icon / FrightFest)
With the rise in popularity of Syfy films such as Sharknado and Piranhaconda, more and more studios are putting out movies in a similar style, mixing tongue-in-cheek humour with bad special effects to produce something…
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The Mutilator (Arrow)
You’ve got to love a film with a strap-line like ‘By sword, by pick, by axe… bye bye!’ And they haven’t even mentioned the outboard motor or the fishing gaff…! But there’s a reason this…
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The Green Inferno (Entertainment One)
Well, you’ve seen Hostel and Cabin Fever, so you should know what to expect from Eli Roth by now, and this is basically him reimagining Cannibal Holocaust, so don’t be surprised when it turns into…
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams – Stephen King (Hodder)
A collection with bite. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King’s latest collection, will delight his fans. Alongside a wide variety of stories (around 20 in total, including two poems), which I’ll come to in…
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Ho, Ho, Ho… Merry Slashmas!
Film News: Horror Channel reveal 4 UK premieres for December viewing Friday nights on Horror Channel get bloody as the UK’s only dedicated TV destination for horror fans, ushers in four UK TV premieres for…
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Pay the Ghost
Pay the Ghost (Arrow Films) Pay the Ghost, based on a story by bestselling British author Tim Lebbon, is a film that takes the tropes of the supernatural sub-genre and does what all good genre…
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Voodoo Child
Voodoo Child – Andre Duza & Wayne Simmons (Infected Books) ‘Voodoo Child’ is one of those all too rare beasts that celebrates its forbearers rather than pretending they don’t exist. From the moment you first…
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The Beast Is Yet To Come! The Film Festival you can really get your teeth into is back!
Werewolves, psychotic grandmothers and Lovecraftian monster mammaries; it could only be Horror-On-Sea 2016! The hit festival is back for its fourth successive year and promises gore geeks and fright freaks not just one but SIX…
