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A busy home, work and play schedule over the last few weeks has meant very little productivity on the writing and submitting front. It was therefore with a smile that I read an email acceptance from...
View ArticlePictures Of The Dark – Simon Bestwick
“There are dark places everywhere…” begins the back cover, and if you want some festering inside your head, then this collection is a good place to start. After reading Bestwick’s acclaimed apocalypse...
View ArticleBull Running For Girls – Allyson Bird
I’m a bit late to the party with this review. I met Allyson (and acquired this collection) at a ghost story reading she organised just before Halloween last year, in a pub on the edge of the Yorkshire...
View ArticleDifferent Skins – Gary McMahon
You know that moment when you hear a new band, read a book or watch a film that strikes a deep chord, and you realise with excitement that you’ve just discovered somebody seriously worth following? It...
View ArticleDepraved – Bryan Smith
Upon picking up Bryan Smith’s latest Leisure release, I expected the oft-trodden path of innocent folks blundering into the backwoods and falling foul of snaggle-toothed hillbillies. Centred around the...
View ArticleConjure – Mark West
The cover of this recent offering from Rainfall Books didn’t lure me. While perfectly appropriate for the novel’s setting, and fair play for spurning cliché, it seemed rather bland. But within a...
View ArticleTide of Souls – Simon Bestwick
A recent addition to Abaddon’s Tomes of the Dead line, I expected this to be a zombie horror-thriller. And while indeed it is, there’s far more to Simon’s novel than necrotic innards and masticated...
View ArticleThe Harm – Gary McMahon
The decision to get comfortable with a big mug of tea and no impending commitments before beginning this novella turned out to be only half correct. I was right in suspecting The Harm: A Polyptych...
View ArticleThe Perfect Time for Night Terrors
It’s a chilly, dark friday the 13th, and a most appropriate day to release a horror anthology, which is exactly what the folks at Blood Bound Books have done. Night Terrors II is available as of now,...
View ArticleJames Herbert 1943 – 2013
I was saddened to read today that James Herbert has passed away, aged 69. A British horror author who had a huge impact on the whole genre, he doesn’t need lengthy introduction here at the Hellforge....
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