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[ Provided by HorrorScope ]NEWS: TWELFTH PLANET PRESS ANNOUNCE NOVELLA SERIES DEBUT
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Rising Angel by Dirk Flinthart. This novella will kickoff the TPP novella series, as well as offer a foretaste of the upcoming New Ceres Anthology.
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George Gordon, mad, bad and dangerous to know, is back and hot on the trail of a Fallen Angel in the Sunset Isles of New Ceres. Teeming with samurai and ninjas, Flinthart plays up against the New Ceres backdrop for another rollicking adventure.
NEWS: SHAUN OF THE DEAD DISCUSSION NIGHT
Edgar Wright's horror-comedy film Shaun Of The Dead is the subject of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club's film discussion night this coming Friday night (25th July). ...read more.
NEWS: SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD WINNERS
The winners have been announced for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Awards. The Shirley Jackson Award is a new US award in the vein of the International Horror Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Australian editor Bill Congreve is among the advisory panel members. ...read more.
NEWS: AHWA MEMBERS' APPEARANCES, SALES, ACCEPTANCES & WINS JULY 08
The Australian Horror Writers Association has a diverse membership of established and emerging writers, who are consistently purveying their fiction and dark non-fiction in a wide variety of publications, and appearing in the media and at events. ...read more.
NEWS: PREY
Top Cat Films and Damage Releasing present a terrifying new Australian horror movie - Prey.
Three couples on a 4WD holiday encounter an Aboriginal sacred site and unleash a 5000-year-old curse, which will horribly claim their lives unless they uncover the source. The disturbing psychological story delves into what each one must do to survive, regardless of their allegiances to their lover or friends. ...read more.
NEWS: KRYPTOGRAPHIK 25 - WITH NEIL GAIMAN!
Kryptographik is a trans-continental podcast featuring Brian (in the U.S.) and Damian (in Australia), providing news, reviews, commentary and interviews covering horror, dark fantasy and science-fiction. ...read more.
NEWS: REMIX MY LIT
BOOK REVIEW: THE UNDEAD VOLUME 3 ? FLESH FEAST
Ed. D. L. Snell & Travis Adkins, Permuted Press, 2007Flesh Feast is the third in a series of zombie-themed anthologies from Permuted Press, a U.S. small-press publisher specialising in apocalyptic and zombie fiction. With this volume, series editors Snell and Adkins continue to showcase their eye for excellent zombie fiction with fifteen themed tales, all well-crafted, and most approaching the zombie phenomenon from fresh perspectives. ...read more.
BOOK REVIEW: THE UNDEAD VOLUME 2 ? SKIN AND BONES
Ed. D. L. Snell & Travis Adkins, Permuted Press, 2007Skin and Bones is the second of a series of zombie-themed anthologies from Permuted Press, a U.S. small-press publisher specialising in apocalyptic and zombie fiction. Regular HorrorScope readers might recall my review of the first anthology in this series, in which I suggested that publication ? while an extremely worthwhile read ? did suffer as a result of many of the stories included being extremely similar, most being obvious homages to George Romero?s zombie movies. ...read more.
NEWS: MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL
The 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival Program has been released! The Melbourne Writers' Festival brings writers, ideas and readers together with over 300 of the best international and Australian authors from 22 August to 31 August 2008 at Federation Square, Melbourne. ...read more.