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It seems everyone (well, almost everyone) loves a good, scary story at Halloween. There is something delicious about being able to snuggle up with a scary book, or switch on the television and [...]

The Rats – James Herbert Quite possibly the first adult horror book I read. I can still remember standing in the shop, and seeing the paperback on display, alongside Night of the Crabs, by [...]

When I started writing Joe Coffin Season One I felt I needed an image in my head of what Coffin looked like. I knew he was going to be big, and probably not good looking (I’m being kind there). [...]

I’d never heard of Dan Simmons before, until I found one of his books in my local second hand bookshop. It was spine out on the shelf, in the Fantasy/Horror/Science fiction section. How these [...]

Looking at the cover and title of Duncan Ralston’s Gristle & Bone, a collection of short and novella-length stories from Booktrope’s new Forsaken imprint, you’d be correct in assuming that [...]

Joe Coffin first began life as a maverick cop leading a specialist team of vampire killers, in a world where vampires have always existed. Coffin, of course, never played by the rules, and [...]