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GRAVE EXPECTATIONS – authors Erwin and Dickens News

GRAVE EXPECTATIONS by authors Sherri Browning Erwin and Charles Dickens (Gallery Books; on-sale August 30, 2011; Trade Paperback Original; $15.00), the latest from the ever increasingly popular literary mash-up genre. Great Expectations is a well-read, much beloved classic—so much so, it was chosen by Oprah as her book-club pick this year. Readers of the original will instantly recognize the novel’s …

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‘Dark Fever’ – Next Franchise on the Horizon?

Hot on the heels of wavy or disapperaing franchises, Dreamworks hopes to light some fire with this new addition to the group. With Film rights acuired on Karen Marie’s book series we’ll be standing by! Darkfever follows MacKayla Lane, an ordinary young woman from Georgia who travels to Ireland to track down her sister’s killer. While overseas, she discovers an …

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Horror Website – An Insight Perspective – Commenting part 2 (spam bots)

Hey everyone, Glad you could join me for another “running a horror web site” article. Today, something caught my eye that as a Marketing person seemed too interesting not to comment on. I’m sure like myself, there are many who rub blogs, deal with comments and often are confused with the content in comments. Now, it goes without saying that …

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12 Bad Jokes About: Insidious

Insidious (2011), is a delightful haunting/possession film directed by James Wan. It’s a film about a family and their attempts to prevent the suddenly comatose son, from being possessed by spirits from a realm called “The Further”. You don’t think that we could conjur up some badjokes about this film, do you?! In fact I feel that I “possess” the …

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Horror Art: Chaz

BIO: Fan of lowbrow art, comic strips and horror/sexploitation movies of the 1970s. Much of my personal work tends to reflect these influences, while still (I hope) forging an identifiable style. Trained as a graphic illustrator ’93 – ’96 but now produce visual art as a hobby, while concentrating on my main love of writing prose fiction. Published first own …

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Book Review: Predatory Instinct – Author Michael McBride

Predatory Instinct by Michael McBride (Delirium Books) The fossilized remains of a previously unclassified hominin species are discovered in the Altai Mountains, prompting teams of scientists from around the globe to converge upon this isolated region of Siberia in search of further evidence to corroborate the revolutionary theory that a third proto-human ancestor coexisted with Neanderthals and primitive Homo sapiens. …

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Book Review: Hell’s Doctor – Author Lee F. Jordan

Hell's Doctor Book Cover Lee Jordan

Hell’s Doctor Published By: Black Rose Writing Published Date: April, 2011 Format: Oversized Paperback, Black /White – 351 pages Price: $18.95 ($7.99 on Kindle) http://hellsdoctor.com/ I’ve had a lot of ideas what hell might be like, if there really is one.  I apparently have never put the amount of thought and analysis into the subject as Lee F. Jordan.  It’s …

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Film Review: Pig (2010)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A deranged psychotic spends his summer day deciding how to deal with the three captives he has chained up on his land. With only his own troubled mind and his dim-witted companion available to guide him and the fate of his victims, the disturbed man makes violent choice after violent choice. No one is safe and …

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