***EVENT FOR CHUCK WENDIG FANS!*** *Wendig is a massive talent with a huge online following and Gods and Monsters is a brand new world he has created for Abaddon Books, while Kelleher has achieved cult status with his historical SF series for Abaddon, No Man’s…
Introduction by Frank Duffy (Summer, 1987, Rainford, Merseyside, Northwest England) It was the summer I turned sixteen, the summer my secondary school education crawled to a graceless conclusion, the summer I dreamed of a future cloaked in the murk of ambiguity. At least it wasn’t…
A friend has started a Facebook page for his work. Sean Ganus usually confuses me, not a difficult task, on Twitter where he posts his serial horror stories…no more swearing at Twitter is needed! Have a peek!
Here’s a nice little sub call for those of you who have a tale reminiscent of those told around the fire in the good old days. This one is calling for creepy supernatural tales & they want to pay you for them! It’s for issue…
I asked a question online a few days ago when I came up with a new novel idea but wondered if parts of it would be a little distasteful. The question was: Horror writers – how disrespectful would you consider it to turn a historical…
You’ve probably heard the theory before – that when threatened; humans and animals will experience a reaction mechanism known as fight-or-flight-or-freeze response…also known by the slightly kinkier name of hyperarousal. Simply put when the Big Bad Wolf gets out of Granny’s bed, still wearing her…
Today is a sad day for the horror community. The great James Herbert has passed away aged only 69. This OBE awarded Master of the genre was Britain’s first true Horror BestSeller. The Rats was an outstanding feat in the early days of modern horror…
There’s a saying floating around the Internet that says ‘writers be crazy’, or as the ever eloquent Chuck Wendig puts it ‘writers be fucking moonbats’…well there are some writers that go a step further than this, there are some writers that should be locked into…
Fact: Exposition kills more readers every year than hippos, volcanoes, and autoerotic asphyxiation combined – pledge just £3 a month and help us kill it dead. I’ve talked about it before but I really wanted to talk about it again…so I will dammit! Sodding exposition…