PUBLISHED BY TITAN BOOKS 192 PAGES  AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK “It was seven frantic weeks of sleepless nights, heavy socialising, fantastically hard work and a kind of wartime Blitz camaraderie” [Edward Woodward] “The Wicker Man was, in the end, horrifying, but not what I’d call a horror film. It was about growth, not decay” [Christopher Lee] And so I finally get my mitts on John Walsh’s book on the making of the film regarded by many as the finest British horror film ever made. For me, The Innocents just about beats The Wicker Man while The Devil Rides Out is more of a personal favourite ..read more

PUBLISHER: TITAN BOOKS 176 PAGES HARDBACK  AVAILABLE TO BUY: NOW Though I was first introduced to his work with Harryhausen: The Lost Movies, which went through the incredible number of productions planned by the legendary special effects artist and stop-motion master [Guillermo del Toro has nothing on him], John Walsh seems to be carving out a niche for himself as the author of definitive film ‘making of’ books. We’ve already had Flash Gordon, the Dr. Who And The Daleks twosome and Escape From New York being given this treatment; I have yet to buy them [I’m not sure I’d buy the Escape F ..read more

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson Hardback available from The Folio Society Mary Katherine Blackwood, also known fondly as Merricat, is eighteen years old and lives with her older sister, Constance Blackwood, and their wheelchair-bound uncle Julian. Coming from a well-to-do family, the sisters have never been looked upon favourably by the villagers in their community, especially since the murders of four other members of the Blackwood family. Though acquitted of the crimes, Constance is still seen as responsible for her family’s deaths and the villagers have done little to ..read more

THEY LURK By Ronald Malfi Published by Titan Books in paperback, audiobook and ebook format Published by Titan Books, THEY LURK is a collection of five novellas from American horror author Ronald Malfi: Skullbelly, The Separation, The Stranger, After The Fade, and Fierce. Touching upon the weird, strange and the supernatural, these five tales of terror deliver a dark sense of unease that’s very hard to shake once you’ve made the plunge into its pages. Having never read any of Ronald Malfi’s work previously, it was exciting to discover the author’s style. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an author ..read more

Mad medics, sinister surgeons and psychopathic psychiatrists…FrightFest and FAB Press once again join forces to exclusively launch THE FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO MAD DOCTOR MOVIES, which goes on sale during FrightFest 2023. The author, practising surgeon Dr. John Llewellyn Probert, will be present, with official signings taking place at Cineworld, Leicester Square on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 August. Ever since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have been depicting on screen the potential outcomes of medical madness and science gone sick. Now join surgeon, author, film critic and not-at-all-mad Doctor ..read more

PET SEMATARY by Stephen King Folio Society edition (hardback with illustrations) available now Doctor Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two kids, five year old Eileen and two year old Gage, relocate to Ludlow, Maine as Louis prepares to start his new job at Maine university heading up the campus medical facility. It doesn’t take the family long to settle into their new property, thanks to the kind, elderly neighbours who live opposite, Jud and Norma Crandall. Having grown up in the area, Jud thrills the Creeds with his tales of the town, Louis in particular who sees Jud as the father he ..read more

AVAILABLE TO BUY  FROM AMAZON HERE PUBLISHER: AFTER MOVIE DINER PRESSS PAPERBACK 231 PAGES I’ve probably often said how I fell in love with Hammer films while sneaking downstairs late at night to watch them TV, spurred on by a book owned by my stepdad called Horror Movies, written by Alan Frank, which talked about some of the films and had exciting illustrations too. This was in the late ’70s / early ’80s, and back then there weren’t that many books that did such a thing, the first serious look at Hammer, which also took in the whole subgenre of English Gothic cinema, being David Pirie’s ..read more

Back in 2021 Ricardo Delgado, a graphic novel artist and one of Hollywood’s leading conceptual designers, unleashed his bold and bloody take on the Prince of Darkness with his illustrated novel Dracula of Transylvania. Now, following the success of the sold-out illustrated novel by Clover Press, creator Ricardo Delgado turns his attention to the creatures that roam the world of Dracula in THE ART OF DRACULA OF TRANSYLVANIA. Only limited by his imagination, the Hollywood storyboard artist has nightmarishly dreamed up demons, witches, vampires, and other unholy, deformed, grotesque beings which ..read more

THE FOURTH CORONA BOOK OF HORROR STORIES Edited by Lewis Williams Available in paperback and eBook format THE FOURTH CORONA BOOK OF HORROR STORIES is, as the name suggests, an anthology of horror stories and Corona’s fourth in the series, though they have also published a book on ghost stories and science-fiction too. This is my first look at Corona’s short horror books, and I have to say that the fourth instalment is a brilliant mixture of stories. It includes stories written in a very classic way, with similarly old-fashioned style of storytelling, whilst others are modern and relaxed for a ..read more

Books can be deadly, as you can find out in author Ronald Malfi’s upcoming novella collection book, GHOSTWRITTEN, set for publication on 4th October 2022 in paperback and eBook format from Titan Books. Four brand-new horror novellas all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth… Full of creepy, page-turning suspense, these collected novellas are perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen King and Joe Hill. In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride. In This Book Belo ..read more