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Archive for ‘April, 2012’
I’m proud to offer the quirky & bizarre Rhys Hughes to you on a platter. He bares all over his rather curious fears & you’ll all receive a little peek into his own little world… Many things scare me. This is because I am a human…
On her website, Sarah Pinborough describes herself as: … a horror, thriller and YA author who has had more than ten novels published thus far across that range. To those of us who know her from her outlandish, hilarious and often controversial social network updates or…
This week I have multi-award winning, & all round great bloke, Gary McMahon ready to reveal his fears & boy, does he have a lot of them… Okay, you asked, so don’t blame me. I’ll tell you exactly what scares me: The deadness behind the…
Great little article on the real-life influence of characters upon the movie viewer… Top 10 Supernatural Reality Altering Horror Characters | HorrorNews.net.
Tonight we have blogger-extraordinaire Jim Mcleod revealing his deep, dark fear…Nuns. What scares me? As the product of a long line of no-nonsense, stoic Scottish farmers, I like to think that nothing scares. Deep dark water? That’s only scary if you go in, and I’m not…
Today we have a treat in our A to Z of Horror. A guest appearance who wanted P, only P. You’ll find out why… P is for People I’m scared all the time. I’m surrounded by people and they terrify me. This isn’t…
K. Who or what should I write about for K? I’m sure there’s an author out there with a K-beginning surname who happens to be famous in the horror genre. If I remember rightly I’m sure his name makes him sound like royalty. Okay, enough…
Writing. Easy, right? Must be! Putting random words in the right(ish) order…can’t be that hard?! Well, as most of you know, it is. It REALLY is. Hemingway put it perfectly: ‘ There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter…
J is for one of my favourite elements of horror fiction, both on page & on screen… J-Horror. I suppose I can say that my love, infatuation, with the Japanese & other Asian horror aspect of the horror genre started with Ringu by Koji Suzuki.…
In an A to Z of horror, i (or I if you prefer) might be deemed a bit of a bitch. After all, there aren’t too many main characters whose names (Christian, sur or nick) begin with i. A quick gander in my horror reference library…
The lovely Mark West has produced a fantastic trailer exclusively for HHHB. Mark is also responsible for book trailers for Gary McMahon, Alison Littlewood & many more great horror authors…please take the time to watch his other clips. This man does great things for the…
Well folks, we’re up to H. I have an interesting link for you to…well, see what you think. Hell… Jean-Paul Sartre said ‘Hell is other people‘, & sometimes I’m inclined to agree. Whilst the jury may forever be out on the actual existence of both…
… in other words, the ghost story. There are many great exponents of the ghost story. Whether you’re looking for the classics of James (both M.R. and Henry), Bierce, Hodgson or Le Fanu or more modern day alternatives such as Ramsey Campbell, Barker, King or…
E. E. Bye. Gum. Why everyone? Why not ‘evil’ or ‘exorcist’ or ‘exterminate’? Why go for the whole barrel instead of just choosing one of the apples? Well, it’s because there is horror in everything – certainly where writers are concerned. They tend to look…
We can’t have B without blood, lots of blood! Whether you prefer to see blood as pure gore or as that physical sensation of the heebie-jeebies just at the pure thought of it, you can’t escape the draw of that scarlet force. My first memory of sitting…
Just over a month ago I conducted an interview with an author whose work I’d been itching to read for a good while after reading some of the superlatives bestowed upon him by Gary McMahon. That author’s name is Simon Strantzas. I read his latest collection,…
Can arsenic activate Armageddon? What is Armageddon? Is it the end of the world in the Biblical sense, or is it something more personal? The loss of a loved one might be deemed a singular example of Armageddon…
