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EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH: GHOUL
In this series, I will be reading every Brian Keene book that has been published (and is still available in print) in order of original publication, and then producing an essay on it. With the...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH: SLASHER FILMS MADE ME GAY:The Queer Appeal AND SUBTEXT...
As a tike, I was introduced to the world of movies by my father. My earliest recollections of film are of weekend “buddy days” spent with Dad and being enthralled by those over-the-top Irwin Allen...
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OBSIDEO: A PREQUEL TO WILL HAUNT YOU PART 5
Brian Kirk's novel Will Haunt You was inspired by a couple from his neighborhood who disappeared after finding a strange book in their home. Brian witnessed this event happening live on the...
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OBSIDEO: A PREQUEL TO WILL HAUNT YOU, THE CONCLUSION READ ON IF YOU DARE
Brian Kirk's novel Will Haunt You was inspired by a couple from his neighborhood who disappeared after finding a strange book in their home. Brian witnessed this event happening live on the...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH: The Perpetual Contradiction
For those of us who identify as LGBTQ (or however you want to put it), the application is one of perpetual contradiction. On the one hand, it is a spectacular incidence: we wake up being as we are,...
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How Horror Crosses Borders
People watch horror films because the want to be scared, and that is exactly why you choose that particular genre, in fact, you choose your entertainment because you want it to have some type of...
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LGBTQ+ horror month: Paralysed by Fear: How sleep paralysis has shaped my...
People often ask me why I am fascinated by horror. It's a complicated question to answer, but it relates to an early memory of mine that could easily have been featured in any of the books or movies...
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LGBTQ+ FOCUS: CHAD STROUP ON CREATING LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
"Time has proven that cis writers aren’t always enlightened enough to deliver fully realized trans characters. And sure, it’s difficult when you lack firsthand experience. But whether it’s laziness,...
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5 POOR EXCUSES TO OMIT QUEER CHARACTERS BY CHRIS CHElser
Maybe it’s because I’m bisexual myself, but to me, creating and writing LGBT+ characters (personally I prefer “queer”) is as natural as breathing. Even if sexuality is never addressed, I will have a...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US? GEORGE DANIEL LEA AND...
As well as being a first class author, and a member of the Ginger Nuts of Horror family, George Daniel Lea also has a fabulous YouTube channel Exaggerated Elegy, where George post some of the best...
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LITERARY STALKER – A ‘GAY NOVEL’ BY A STRAIGHT AUTHOR BY ROGER KEEN
At the Hay Festival last year, prominent gay novelist Alan Hollinghurst declared that the gay novel has had its day. He said that in earlier decades it possessed urgency and novelty, but now it is...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH - PLUS ÇA CHANGE BY GARY FRY
“I’d like a room for tonight, if you have one available.”“A single, sir?”“Ah no, a double, please.”The man at reception looked at Darren for long seconds but then capitulated. “Certainly, sir. If...
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AS THE CROW FLIES BY SIMON BESTWICK
Let’s understand one another from the start, shall we? I am not a ‘role model’: no-one would even have understood the term when I was alive. I was an acid-tongued bitch, low-born (as those cuntish...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH - OUR COMMON CONFUSIONS: CLIVE BARKER'S BOOKS OF BLOOD
A name you're likely to find cropping up again and again and again this month is Clive Barker. Clive Barker, a name that is as synonymous with horror fiction and cinema as Stephen King, that, at the...
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LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH - Childhood Fears BY James Bennett
There was a demon in my dreams last night.I know where he comes from, this demon. He walks straight out of the past. He’s the distilled embodiment of it, a figure in black glass.There’s a curse, you...
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THE FINE-TOOTHED COMB PROFESSIONAL EDITORIAL SERVICES.
Hi there, my name is Dion Winton-Polak and I'm in love with the written word. Have been for as long as I can remember. Before I started The Fine-toothed Comb I had a role as a reviewer and a podcaster...
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C.C. ADAMS TELLS US ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD FEARS
I have a fear of horror films. Or, to be more precise, horror films terrify me. I’m aware that some people love to watch a horror film and enjoy a good scare. Not me. There’s nothing enjoyable about...
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NOT SIMON, AN EXCLUSIVE SHORT STORY FROM PHIL SLOMAN
As part of our focus on LGBTQ+ horror authors last month we challenged a number of straight authors to write a short story from an LGBTQ+ viewpoint, or featuring LGBTQ+ characters, in an attempt to...
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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US? GEORGE DANIEL LEA AND KIT POWER DISCUSS...
As well as being a first class author, and a member of the Ginger Nuts of Horror family, George Daniel Lea also has a fabulous YouTube channel Exaggerated Elegy, where George post some of the best...
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CHILDHOOD FEARS: LUCAS MANGUM AND THE DEAD MAN'S DITCH
I grew up in a San Diego suburb, and in my backyard stretched a vast canyon full of coyotes and transients. The kids called it “Dead Man’s Ditch.” Word around my elementary school, which also backed...
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