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2012 has seen me tackle two books by Wayne Simmons: Drop Dead Gorgeous and Flu. Although these two stories have the undead at their heart and are both set in Simmons’ native Northern Ireland, they are both quite different, yet both pack quite the punch.
Approachable, laid-back and talented author Simmons graciously agreed to talk to [...]
Fiends, I’m sure that you’re more than aware that all the team here at AndyErupts love horror. Myself in particular, I’m a fan of horror books. Unfortunately, there’s a swathe of horror that just isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. With this in mind, gems such as Adam Baker’s debut novel Outpost and its [...]
One of my favourite British films of 2011 is undoubtedly Julian Gilbey’s action thriller, A Lonely Place To Die.
Filmed in the Highlands of my beloved homeland, A Lonely Place To Die is an exciting, heart-thumping ride which stars Melissa George (The Amityville Horror, 30 Days of Night), Ed Speelers (Eragon, Love Bite), Eamonn Walker (Unbreakable, Oz), Sean [...]
“They’re coming to get you, Barbara…”
Iconic doesn’t even begin to cover this line. It’s a line I have heard uttered in numerous different versions and visions of George A. Romero’s genre-defining Night of The Living Dead. Bill Moseley has delivered the line twice so far and it was even lampooned in Shaun of The Dead. It really [...]
It’s fair to say that I’m pretty down on vampire films. Occasionally you get one that actually tries to do something a little bit different such as Stake Land or Chan-Wook Park’s Thirst. In the run-up to Grimm Up North, I had written a little preview piece on Neil Jones’ The Reverend, a film that [...]
Scotland: a country with a population less than that of London, yet a country that has produced a disproportionate amount of fantastic writing talent in our time such as Christopher Brookmyre, Irvine Welsh and Iain Banks.
William Meikle is a Scottish author who lives in Canada and writes genre stories that have wide appeal and are [...]
