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It's our opinion that James Brogden is the greatest living writer of folk horror in the UK. We loved his previous books Hekla's Children, The Hollow Tree and The Plague Stones, but we think his latest novel Bone Harvest is the best yet. Dennie lives on the outskirts of a Staffordshire town with Viggo her... Continue Reading →
We at the Hothouse are big fans of James Bushe's short filmPredator: Dark Ages which pitches a medieval Templar knight against the same beast that made mincemeat out of Arnie's mates in Predator (1987). This of course set us wondering what would happen if Alien Xenomorphs came up against armored medieval warriors. Well now we... Continue Reading →
The Deck of Omens is the sequel to Christine Lynn Herman's The Devouring Gray. After the traumatic events at the conclusion of the previous story we find a new threat to the upstate New York town town of Four Paths and our four young protagonists Harper Carlisle, Isaac Sullivan, Violet Saunders and May Hawthorne. This... Continue Reading →
Steven King is on record as saying 'I loved it. and I think you will too' about Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters, which has recently been published by our lovely friends at Titan Books. It's easy to see why King enjoyed the book so much as it is essentially a coming of age story,... Continue Reading →
Created by the Tokyo SFX Makeup Workshop and issued in the UK, US and Canada by our good friends at Titan Books A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup 3: Realistic Scar Makeups is very much what it says on the cover. Essentially its a step by step illustrated guide to creating realistically gory scar and... Continue Reading →
Our good friends at Titan Books have recently published Christine Lynn Herman's The Deck of Omens, the second book in the Four Paths young adult series. Before embarking on the sequel we thought we ought to get up to speed with the book that opened the lid on the mysterious town in rural New York... Continue Reading →
Just recently published in the UK by our good friends at Titan Books M.T. Hill's The Breach takes us into a uneasy future Britain where there are self driving cars that track your movements, private police forces with the power to ransom anyone they arrest and much better internet connectivity that comes at am enormous... Continue Reading →
I do like the title of Re-Coil, the new Sci-fi novel from American writer J T Nicholas, which has just been published by Titan Books. In the not too far distant future death has ceased to be so much of a problem since bio-technologists discovered how to isolate a personality into a synthetic core, which... Continue Reading →
We are always excited to have a new book by Tim Lebbon to review and Eden, which has just been published by our good friends at Titan Books, steps into similar territory as 2015s The Silence where folks have to face up to an environmental disaster, kind of like a modern day John Wyndham. So... Continue Reading →
One hundred years on from the events related in Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters, the Yokai Town Bund, given over to the vampire refugees from Prince Dracula's England is about to revert to being part of Tokyo. It's self styled queen Christina Light is throwing a party to celebrate the dawning of the new millennium... Continue Reading →
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