Horror Reviews
Punk Rock certainly had attitude, but it also had its day. I myself am more of a Post-Punk/New Wave fan, artists who came from Punk and proved that they could actually hold a tune and write a song. Punk was almost more about the movement, the mindset, than it was about the music. Can someone put...
Intrusive thought are horrible things, but most people get them. The secret is to realise what they are and not to act on them. No need to jump off that cliff or put your hand in a pot of boiling water; just dark thoughts trickling through your brain pan. Lailah has a lot of intrusive thoughts,...
Some books you read; others you negotiate with. King Sorrow falls firmly into the second category. My carefully signed copy has been sitting on the TBR shelf for some time now, 900 pages of it, glowering at the slimmer volumes that kept jumping the queue and seeming to take up a little more room...
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there?s injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold.
If you have ever had the good fortune to visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, you would have come across a room full to the brim with curios from across the globe. One of my preferred areas to browse houses a collection from far closer to home, magic items. These tokens of good and bad magic...
There is something magical about going to the cinema, the better sound quality, larger image, seats, popcorn. All of it adds to the ambience of a film, making it a far greater experience than just being at home. I will go to watch almost any film and enjoy watching the re-releases of classic...
I used to love a good ghost story on television, for all their manifestations of the undead, they could be gentle. The cosy murder mystery of the supernatural world, but these days are over. Now it seems that they are all jump scares and body horror, Casper is no longer as friendly as he once...
Love can put you into a tricky moral maze as you would turn a blind eye for a loved one that you would never dream of for a stranger. A classic example is a parent looking out for their child. If you know they had committed a hideous crime, would you turn them in? You would like to think that...
For many the idea of moving to the county is a dream, the ability to slow down and learn to live better in the natural world. For others like Tamsin it is an escape, an escape from the city in which she felt alone, escape from the company she worked for after the recent incident that has seen...
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there?s injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold.
They say that you should never meet your heroes and that is doubly so if they are dead and still somehow able to talk. Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle is all about what it takes to become famous in this world. Do you go down the new route and become an online influencer? Or are you old school...
I read quite a lot of horror, to the point that it does not really affect me anymore, flesh eating clowns, aliens that tear off limbs, none of this is going to happen to me. A child being bullied at school, another joining a rough crowd, work becoming too stressful, a parent with dementia. These...
Some books refuse to sit still in any one genre, and Fever House is one of them.
I picked it up at a recent convention while browsing the dealer room, not even knowing the author, and I came away convinced that he is one of the more interesting voices currently working at the messier end...
What is art? It is a question I have to ask on occasion as I live with an artist. It is in the eye of the beholder, some of the stuff I see I would not look twice at, even top name artists are not to everyone’s tastes. Some are labelled outsider artists, those that have no formal training...
Horror - also known as Horror fantasy - is a genre of literature that is intended to induce fear, terror or horror in it's readers.
Horror can be be fantastic, supernatural or simply fictional in nature and is considered to be a genre that has existed in some form for hundreds of years. As with any genre there is always some ambiguity as to what constitutes horror and there does seem to be a modern predilection for a greater degree of dark fantasy and speculative fiction rather than the classic definition of Horror, however there are still some authors producing some top rate novels within the genre.
Here you can see reviews of the latest new horror books along with some of the best classics of the genre.
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