If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Mulholland Books presents a new book from experienced writers Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston and Stephen Romano entitled Black Light: Don’t Look too Deep. The novel is due to be released in October. Now, the Black Light. I see everything. Everything [...]
The latest in classic and horror mashup novels is to be released at the beginning of next month by Proxima. Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock is a ‘sequel’ to Pride and Prejudice set a year or so into the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. Elizabeth Darcy has much on her mind: [...]
The first in a new sci-fi series by Peter Crowther, The Forever Twilight trilogy, is to be launched at the beginning of October by Angry Robot Books. Darkness Falling is the story of a typical, all-American backwater, until the night the monsters arrive… When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts [...]
A new title from Swedish horror writer John Ajvide Lindqvist is to be released next month. Following on from the excellent Handling the Undead and Let the Right One In, is Lindqvist’s latest offering, Little Star. One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl [...]
Editor in chief at Solaris Books brings horror home in October with a collection of haunted house stories guaranteed to have the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end. This spooky collection is a must for horror and fantasy fans alike and is a real treat of a book from its’ creepy [...]
Atlus has unveiled a new trailer for its adventure-puzzle and psychological horror game which has stirred up quite a bit of interest. An Anime style adventure which explores adult relationship themes, after being unfaithful Catherine’s protagonist Vincent finds himself haunted by terrible nightmares. Worse still, other men around the city have been dying in their [...]
Here’s an interesting one that the guys over at Evil Avatar spotted, in an article on Entertainment Weekly talking about the Walking Dead writers being fired (or leaving of their own volition, depending on who you believe). Further along in the piece, it mentions Greg Nicotero, the make-up effects supremo who created the Walking Dead [...]
Rising Star Games has announced that it will be publishing the Xbox 360 survival horror game Deadly Premonition in PAL territories. The game, which will be released over here in the autumn, has been out for a while in Japan and the States, where it has polarised critics’ opinions. It’s definitely a Marmite, love or [...]
Paranormal Activity was a big hit – it was made on a shoestring budget, and grossed over $100 million in the US alone. So the sequel was inevitable, and keenly anticipated by the many who thought the original film was one of the scariest they’d ever seen. Radio 1′s film critic James King said he [...]
Konami has announced a new horror game at the E3 show in LA. Neverdead is a third-person action affair, a supernatural horror which is set in a fantasy and horror influenced universe where humans fight tooth and nail with monstrous demonic creatures. Who fight with pointy tooth and tentacle, probably. Of course, a hero is [...]
Iceberg Interactive and Zoetrope Interactive have announced that their horror adventure for the PC, Darkness Within 2, has now hit the shelves in the UK. Subtitled The Dark Lineage, the adventure is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, author of many a creepy tale, not to mention inventor of many a strange word. It’s also a little [...]
Hammer Films, the makers of those classic sixties and seventies horror flicks, are back in action these days. Not only has the film company acquired the rights to remake the Swedish vampire chiller Let the Right One In, but it’s also set to venture into the world of 3D films. The Woman in Black will [...]
Once again an old story is to be given a modern day make over, we have seen so reboots of the old films that it is becoming like a gold rush for studios to get their hands on films rights in order to be the first to remake an old film. Currently it is old [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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