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The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones is the sixth offering in the excellent and innovative series of limited edition chapbooks from This Is Horror and it’s a corker. The Elvis Room tells the tale of a research scientist who finds himself ostracised from the serious scientific community after an unsanctioned experiment he performs in an attempt to help a patient overcome her phobias doesn’t go to plan. Forced to hit the paranormal and supernatural convention circuit, he spends years drifting from hotel to hotel in a nomadic existence until one day he discovers a chilling phenomenon that he dubs The Elvis Room and an obsessive experiment is born.

To say anything further would be to risk giving away the enjoyment of discovering where Jones takes us, but the tale gets progressively darker and becomes genuinely unsettling until the final, chilling denouement that will stay with you for a while.

With his debut novel, Meat, Joseph D'Lacey burst onto the horror scene with a novel that prompted Stephen King to exclaim, "D'Lacey rocks!" We recently got to sit down with Joseph to talk about his career and the return of both Meat and Garbage Man via a brand new publisher.

The first pertinent question for any professional wordsmith is exactly what got them into pursing creative endeavours for a living. For D'Lacey, the love for writing had always been there, but took time to fully blossom.

He mused, "I think I've always had a writer's nature, I suppose, and the thing for me was that I didn't really pursue it until later in life. I was probably around thirty, really, before it got started. I'd always been a diarist, a journalist and written poetry and all those sort of things, but I didn't really turn my hand to fiction until probably when I was thirty,...

They say that when you die, your life flashes before you, that time slows to a crawl and every moment seems like a lifetime in itself. Roadkill by Joseph D'Lacey is the short story equivalent of this maxim, the entire tale taking place over just one hundred seconds, and works well for it.

That we know little of this society beyond the tantalising glimpses we are given is both intriguing and deliciously frustrating, with the whole tale feeling as though we've stumbled across a lost chapter from a larger epic, but this is no bad thing, as the best examples of short fiction are often brief glimpses into other lives, other realities, often with no tangible resolution as is the case here. Harlan Ellison is a master of this approach, and D'Lacey channels his work here while retaining his own voice, a voice lest we forget that no less than...

Almost one year ago to the day, when we last checked in on the evil dance grooves of German hellektro artist Wumpscut, aka Rudy Ratzinger, he was courting controversy with the insane promotional art for his album Women & Satan First, which also marked a strong return to the gothic horror beats and dark cinematic soundscapes that won him a worldwide following (and which made a die-hard fan out of this writer). With this year's ten-track release Madman Szpital, Rudy has found a fairly stable balance between those ominous musical themes and his decades of DJ experience twisting up beats – and he's invited other artists into his devil's playground to take part in the full-length remix album DJ Dwarf 13, continuing a tradition that began in 1997 with his hit album Embryodead and its companion remix disc. The record is definitely front-loaded with its strongest tracks – including the eerie, jazz-sampling title track that...

Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Kim McKamy (aka Ashlyn Gere) | Written by David DeCoteau, Buford Hauser | Directed by David DeCoteau

Another entry in 88 Films’ Grindhouse Collection, Creepozoids is one of those movies that came to great prominence in my youth thanks to it’s regular appearance on the Stephen King’s This Is Horror TV show, which used to screen on late night ITV in the early 90s. And whilst I feel like I’ve seen most of the film thanks to the number of clips shown in that series, I have never sat down and watch Creepozoids in it’s entirety. Until now.

Set in 1998, six years after the nuclear apocalypse of World War III, the film sees group of army deserters, Bianca (Quigley), Kate (McKamy), Butch (Abraham), Jesse (Aranda), and Jake (Hawkins), take refuge in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex. They soon discover...

Following at the impressive heels of previous chapbooks Joe & Me and Thin Men with Yellow Faces, the folks at the UK's This Is Horror have revealed their next slice of bite-sized fear due to land on March 1st: Conrad Williams' The Fox. Read on for details of the launch event!

Synopsis:

They took their daughters to a glamping farm to escape the stresses of the city. There were chickens to feed, logs to chop and a fire to keep stoked. For a day it was fun to reconvene with nature and connect with what it meant to be wild.

But on that first night a blizzard hit and they woke up to a white world. The snow only made the blood easier to see…

Now the chickens have disappeared and there’s a dead little surprise down by the children’s playground. A warning that you can’t just...