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Stopped by Whitstable accompanied by the mind behind Great British Horror & took a few pics for fellow Hammer Horror fans…                      

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On the Bram Stoker Awards…

Something amazing, yet somehow terrifying, has happened. 

I’ve made it into the Finalists list for the Bram Stoker Awards 2015 alongside Joe Mynhardt for my work on Horror 101: The Way Forward. Joe asked if I’d contribute a piece for the book about a year before I joined him over at Crystal Lake Publishing. I was hesitant, yet wanted to write something for the collection. I’ll admit freely that…

Mizuki Shigeru and American Horror Comics

Originally posted on 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai:

When you think of influences on Japanese comic book legend Mizuki Shigeru, names like Basil Wolverton, Bob Powell, and Warren Kremmer don’t usually spring to mind. After all, those artists drew for 1950s American horror comics like Tomb of Terror and Crypt of Horror. They hardly seem like source material for a young man thousands of miles…

Abandoned Home for the Abandoned: Forest Haven Asylum

Emma Audsley:

In-depth descriptive of an asylum that should never have existed…

Originally posted on Sometimes Interesting:

Welcome to Forest Haven, one of the most deadly institutions in the United States.

This asylum for the mentally ill was built not far the nation’s capital in 1925, hidden in forested acreage away from the busy city center. The campus was beautiful, however care and…

Here’s a little list of blogs I find to be rather brilliant!

I’ll add as I go…

TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig,Freelance Penmonkey | Chuck Wendig: Freelance Penmonkey.

http://www.daniel-i-russell.blogspot.com/

http://suzannerobb.blogspot.com/

http://eviljesterpress.lefora.com/

http://www.duotrope.com/

http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com/

http://darkcontinents.com/

http://www.jo-annerussell.ca/

http…

A Few Titles More…

All who know me personally, or even from my FaceBook profile, will know oh so well that my to-be-read list is longer than my possible lifespan…so I thought I’d share a few of the title with you. These will all be accompanied by reviews in due time!

And last, but certainly not least, Matt Shaw’s enSICKlopedia…just because.

Now…back to reading…

Adam Henry Carriére ~ Soviet

Emma Audsley:

Amazing work…

Originally posted on DM du Jour:

The neatly-gentrified Mtsensk District plaster buckled in all the permitted places. With fashionable decay, the yellowing windows matched the grey-painted walls. A bare mattress laid in the center of the room. Its sagging middle reminded me of the hall guard outside.

It was a well-upholstered citizen’s slum, drawn to exacting state…

Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation.

Emma Audsley:

This is becoming more of a problem to our self-published authors, & small presses to an extent, so what can we, the readers, do about it?

Originally posted on Graeme Reynolds's Blog:

This is a really strange blog post to have to write, simply because the situation is absurd. It would be comedic, really, if the situation was not costing me money and resulted in one of my best-selling…

Mutator by Gary Fry

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.” - Neil Gaiman.

  Mutator by Gary Fry and published by DarkFuse is a story of discovery, or finding things concealed in the darkness. James Parry a retired professor moves to a new home in the country along with…

The Pariahs by Erik Hofstatter

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.” - Neil Gaiman.

  Reminiscent of Clive Barker’s claustrophobic ‘Dread’, sans the sex and gore, The Pariahs is a sharp horror of Orwellian isolation. Two siblings, 17 year old Demyan and Akilina his 12 year old…

Interview at BlogTalk Radio

Tonight (1am GMT/8pm EST) I’ll be talking alongside Justin Steele with host Jennifer Perry over at BlogTalk Radio!

Here we have a new story penned by David Owain Hughes, an author with a love of all things close-to-the-bone & grotesque.

   Jimmy read, as he glanced over the newspaper on his boss’ desk. The guy’s name was Archie. There was a photo. Jimmy knew him. Had delivered to him. A right creep. A creep who had seemed a bit screwy to Jimmy. He ordered copious amounts of the same shit – pens, pencils,…

Within Wet Walls by Lily Childs.

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.” - Neil Gaiman.

    Within Wet Walls by Lily Childs is a memoir of mortis that reads like an absinthe soaked book of poetry. A book found in a lost forest with an escape map pencilled on the back. The question is…