POSTED ON: October 30, 2015
FILED UNDER: Film
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By Georgia Bowers
It’s that time of year, when we wear stripy 50 denier tights, drink spiced pumpkin lattes, and post Instagram photos of aforementioned attire and beverages while we wait for trick or treaters. Watching horror films is also standard practice on the 31st October, but what if Freddy Krueger gives you bedwetting night terrors?
MOREBy Hodderscape Team
This month we’ve been jetting through outer space and traversing the Canadian Wildnerss. Check out the best things we read, watched and played this month!
MOREBy Karen Munro
Some of the scariest horror out there is ambiguous and subtle, creeping you out with lingering unanswered questions. And then there are what we might call creature features – gloriously gross, sensationally shabby, no-holds-barred celebrations of (wo)man vs. nature. But today’s creature features can have finesse too. It just takes a little time and patience to search out the really good ones from the wonderful mess of low-budget space aliens and post-atomic giant termites (and tornado-borne sharks) crowding your Netflix queue.
MOREPOSTED ON: October 28, 2015
FILED UNDER: Television
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By Aimee Oliver
Halloween specials are usually an excuse for TV shows to get slightly creepier than normal. But few tend to go full pelt into blood, guts and gore. We have a mixture of both in a list of our favourite Hallowe’en-themed episodes – let us know if we’ve missed any classics in the comments below.
MOREPOSTED ON: October 27, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Open Submissions
By Anne Perry
It’s nearly the end of October! But we’re not quite done reading yet… Below the jump, you’ll find a status update to let you know how we’re doing with our open submissions.
MOREBy Alan Kelly
The compilation of a literary nasty list is no easy feat – how does one put together a collection of controversial novels in our desensitized world? The film and publishing industries are saturated in blood and gore, bookshelves are weighed down by misanthropy and severed heads and Simon Cowell routinely disembowels contestants during X Factor on a Saturday evening. Okay, so that last one is a slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean, right? Below is a list of novels that have haunted me, horrified me and truly stayed with me…
MOREBy Aimee Oliver
I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim recently (have quite a way to go before I’m a threat to anyone but myself and a few scurrying foxes) and thinking about the representation of women in video games. Growing up, it felt that female characters were often side-lined, underdeveloped, or non-existent. Nowadays, there seems to be some improvement!
MOREPOSTED ON: October 22, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Book Covers, Daniel Polansky, Fantasy
By Fleur Clarke
Feast your eyes upon the cover for Daniel Polansky’s Those Below, the unmissable sequel to Those Above.
MOREPOSTED ON: October 21, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Events and exhibitions, John Connolly, Lavie Tidhar, Matthew Blakstad, Rebecca Levene, Sarah Lotz, Scott K. Andrews, Stark Holborn
By Anne Perry
The British Fantasy Society’s annual convention, FantasyCon, kicks off this weekend in Nottingham. And loads of us will be there! After the jump you’ll find the complete Hodderscape schedule, featuring Anne Perry, John Connolly, Lavie Tidhar, Matt Blakstad, Rebecca Levene, Scott Andrews and the mysterious Stark Holborn. If you see us, give us a wave!
MOREBy Pat Black
Halloween comes but once a year and with it the excuse to read scary stories. (As if you needed an excuse.) Pat Black suggests eleven classics you simply must read with the lights on.
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