1. What’s your bio? Iseult Murphy started writing at a young age, entertaining her family with magazines that she wrote and illustrated as a child. In her teens, she won several local and national short story competitions, including three time overall winner of the RDS Young Science Writers competition, and had work placed in international […]
Dan – 2020 might be remembered not just for its pandemic but for the break-out horror author of the year, Ross Jeffery. For those who don’t know, Ross brought out three books last year: Juniper, Tome, and Tethered. The latter was an experimental flash fiction collection of literary fiction, which speaks to Ross’s emotional range […]
1. Who is Mark Cassell? Mark Cassell lives on the south-east coast of the United Kingdom with his wife and plenty of animals. His jobs have included baker, lab technician, driving instructor, actor, and was once a spotlight operator for an Elvis impersonator. As the author of the best-selling Shadow Fabric mythos, he not only […]
1. What’s your bio? Paste here? Steve Stred writes dark, bleak fiction and is the author of a number novels, novellas and collections. He is proud to work with the Ladies of Horror Fiction to facilitate the Annual LOHF Writers Grant. Steve has appeared alongside some of Horror’s heaviest hitters in some fantastic anthologies. Steve Stred is based […]
Note: this review first appeared on Storgy.com The Fungus is a romp of a horror story, mixing black-humour with a classic Promethean horror motif of science run amok. Part of Valancourt Book’s revamp of 1970s and 80s creature horror, The Fungus delivers on the nostalgia and a wickedly grotesque monster, well, mutated fungi really, but they aren’t without […]
More Gothic and Victorian literary intertextuality that you can shake a wooden stake at. Slicker than a tanto blade after seppuku with only faintly marred with staccato transitions into action scenes. So sharp it might cut itself with its own cleverness. If literary influences bit each other to create a super-vampire this book would be the get of: Dracula, Frankenstein, Lovecraft, Loan Wolf and […]
I haven’t enjoyed a book quite as much as this in a long time. A post-apocalyptic dystopian ripping yarn, which is both funny and moving in equal measure. A reflection on what might happen if the more intolerant, nationalistic elements of the Bretix movement become amplified. Nothing particularly new in the post-apocalyptic vision, however, the […]
Netflix tries its hand at funding an end of the world movie, with some top dollar actors. And largely its good. While the script plays out some predictable tropes, such as the father-in-law-to-be relationship, got to get from here to way over there journey, whilst everything is falling apart and people screw each other over […]
