Ramsey’s Rant: Censorship
By Ramsey Campbell I admit it: I failed. In my latest novel, The One Safe Place, I tried to parody some of the excesses of censorship, but reality has outstripped what I [...]
Dark Asylum #1
Review by Jenny Barber Among Dark Asylum’s varied contents, is a story from the editor of some genre newsletter, although the name at the moment escapes me! Asylum is [...]
Hammer Horror #2
Review by David J. Howe I have for many years been a secret admirer of the Hammer films. In fact, the first horror film I ever saw was Hammer’s Taste the Blood of [...]
Happy World Book Day!
From Little Brown: “To celebrate the launch of our new horror writer, Christopher Ransom, we’re inviting UK & Ireland based horror scribes (aged 18+) to send [...]
IMPORTANT. Fantasycon contact address
Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the previously published email address for Fantasycon. In the interim, please use fantasycon2009@gmail.com — and this [...]
The Shawshank Redemption
Review by Gary Couzens At this time of year, the cinema trade press (Variety, Screen International etc) carry large adverts touting certain films for Oscar consideration. In [...]
Vault of Horror, Vol. 1
Review by Gary Couzens This series of three tapes gathers together the Tales From The Crypt cable TV series under the banner Vault of Horror. And a good idea it is, too. Each [...]
Killing Zoe
Review by Gary Couzens Zed (Eric Stoltz), an expert safecracker, arrives in Paris to help his childhood friend Eric (Jean-Hughes Anglade) pull off a bank robbery. Offered [...]