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WRITING FOR SPOOKS

We've decided to trawl through a host of submission opportunities covering fiction, manuscripts, audio scripts and compile them for you here, so that you can make the most out of this spooky season for your creative flow...

An Ill Planet: Revisiting ‘a Field in England’ in 2024

We all know the feeling of someone talking down at you about a film, music, whatever — they have a certain look in their eye as while they barely contain the orgasmic rush of correcting whatever perfectly legitimate opinion you dared to... Continue Reading →

a Vacuous Affair: The Alternative Master of Horror Fiction

Imagine being trapped in a room, the walls are made out of orange, rusted metal and there's a large red carpet on the floor, lit only by the faint glow of a lamp in the corner. There are no windows.... Continue Reading →

Serial Terror: The Loss of One of TV’s Greatest Nightmares

At worst, horror in television discolours the entire genre and gets thrown onto the pile of would-be terror inducers from the mid-late 2000s Hollywood scare machine. But at best, it does what 'Channel Zero' (SyFy channel, Nick Antosca) does - it... Continue Reading →

Dirty Gods: Elias Merhige and Drone Horror

"Language bearers. Photographers. Diary Makers. You with your memory are dead, frozen. Lost in a present that never stops passing. Here lives the incantation of matter. A language forever." These are the first words we see on screen as the... Continue Reading →

Spiritual Healing: Russian Folklore and Deep Consciousness

I know I gave a nice little plan about what I was gong to write about in my last article, and that was what I intended to follow - but then I saw Pavel Khvaleev's  'III: The Ritual' (2015) and... Continue Reading →

Conceptual Punishment – Design highlights of Masahiro Ito

I probably talk more about wanting to write about 'Silent Hill' (Team Silent, Konami, 1999) than I do about anything. But that's only because it's so fundamentally unsettling through its surreal exposition, and such a perfect example of contemporary art... Continue Reading →

Journeys: VR Gaming and Art in Digital Space

The process of observation is important with art or anything similar. By witnessing something, the viewer becomes one of the most important parts of the equation. How the viewer experiences art is as much a part of the creative exposition... Continue Reading →

Welcome to jam

"This sick saddo is beyond a jerk" - just one of the many way Chris Morris, dubbed the most hated man in Britain, has been described by the UK press. Usually it was for vicious satire and a dealing with... Continue Reading →

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