Tag Archive | "horror"

Books: James Herbert, RIP

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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Some very sad news breaking this evening via the BBC: the bestselling author James Herbert has passed away at the age of 69, just as his latest book has been released in paperback. I’m quite shocked at the how suddenly we seem to have lost James – 69 is not particularly old these days and [...]

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Win Hammer’s DRACULA on 3-disk Blu-ray + DVD

Monday, March 18, 2013

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  Sure, Bela Lugosi’s pretty good, but for my money, Christopher Lee is Dracula. Who are you to argue against a position supporting actor who did sinister so magnificently well he went on to play not only Saruman in the Lord of the Rings but also Star Wars’ Count Dooku? And who better to oppose him [...]

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Comics: Boo!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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Andy Waugh and Paul Harrison-Davies have announced a new anthology, Boo!, a horror comic collection aimed at younger readers. Originally something the pair of them were going to create between them it has snowballed now to include eight very fine UK creators – Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Rob Davis, Jonathan Edwards, James Howard, Gary Northfield and [...]

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Books: Neil Gaiman reads Down Among the Dead Men

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Our own James spotted this on YouTube – Constable and Robinson, who have published a number of very fine and successful genre anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy, horror and more over the years, have a new collection edited by genre anthology stalwart Stephen Jones, Zombie Apocalypse: Fightback. One of the short stories in the collection [...]

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Competition: Win Fear Itself on Blu-Ray

Friday, January 18, 2013

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FEAR ITSELF: The Complete First Series RELEASED ON DVD OWN AND RENT ON 28TH JANUARY 2013, available from all your favourite DVD retailers. We’ve got a real, real treat for you today: a chance to win the complete Fear Itself (no, not that Fear Itself) on DVD. Growing up on a steady diet of  TV [...]

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Review: Interview With the Vampire – Claudia’s Story

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Interview With the Vampire – Claudia’s Story Based on the novel by Anne Rice, adapted by Ashley Marie Witter Headline I’ll start by confessing straight up that Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is one of my favourite novels. Originally published in the mid 70s it has sold in the millions and spawned a connected [...]

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News, Views and Oddities #6

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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News, Views and Oddities, where we link to various bits and bobs which have grabbed our attention, encompassing comics, books, illustration, design and film. Clicking fingers at the ready. It’s Thursday, the weekend is within touching distance and in that spirit, let’s open with a little bit of not-comics amazingness via Retronaut: a photograph from [...]

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Animation: Psycho homage

Friday, November 2, 2012

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This is a short but remarkable wee film – it’s a homage to Hitchcock’s iconic film Psycho, and it’s actually a papercraft construction that Davy and Kristin McGuire made as an installation for the The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. You can see some photos of the installation and the making of the piece [...]

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Film: the Suckablood

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Here’s a terrific short fairytale horror film to start your Halloween off on the proper chilling manner for Halloween, a film by Ben Tillett and Jake Cuddihy where the Suckablood is summoned to punish naughty children who refuse to stop sucking their thumbs (Linus Van Pelt take note), from the BloodyCuts folks: Suckablood – short [...]

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Horror: The Hallowe’en Sessions

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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The Hallowe’en Sessions Written by Kim Newman, Stephen Volk, Maura McHugh, Anne Billson, Paul McAuley and Sean Hogan. Leicester Square Theatre, 29th October – 3rd November As one goes down from street level, just off Leicester Square, the theatre feels plush, traditionally red, velvety even and yet distinctly underground. Then one is directed further to [...]

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