Darkness at the Edge of Town Jeremy Saulnier’s latest film, Hold the Dark is his most overt Western so far. His previous films, the murky revenge Blue Ruin, and punks vs Nazis masterpiece Green Room have flirted with the genre before, taking inspiration from the westerns of the 70’s (Green Room’s origins can be traced
We are pleased to announce the long list of the SHALLOW CREEK Short Story competition In Alphabetical order, the long-listed finalists are: * Nick Adams – Tide – Erik Bergstrom – The Soil of Stonier Hearts – Simon Billinton – Blood Moon Bob – Daniel Carpenter – Arrowhead – Marion Coleman – Anchor – J. Stuart
(WARNING! The following article contains many spoilers for the film ‘Hereditary’ Consider this your first and last warning!) A generational curse bleeds through Hereditary, Ari Aster’s feature length debut, and candidate for most unsettling film of 2018. When Annie’s (Toni Collette) mother dies, horrific events begin plaguing the family, and as Annie seeks a
Published by Unthank, Unthology 10 is a revelation. In more ways than one. If you haven’t heard of Unthank Books or their aptly named Unthology then where have you been? This is the question I asked myself as I began reading. Perhaps it’s because I’ve only recently (in the last five months or so) sunk
Not every horror film should reinvent the wheel. A great horror film can come with the baggage and tropes from decades of cinema, and likewise, bad can come from trying something new. A Quiet Place, the third film by John Krasinski (from the US version of The Office), wants you to think that it’s doing
EPISODE 10: Alasdair Stuart “There’s a lot of authors out there and if you pay them right you will get all of them.” It’s the final episode of the first series of The Paperchain Podcast and we’ve got Escape Artist’s very own Alasdair Stuart on the show. He talks about his origins as a film
EPISODE 9: Fat Roland “I’m basically like a human pile of bin bags.” It’s the penultimate episode of the series! To celebrate, Fat Roland met Daniel in Hackney the morning after Bad Language ran a literature stage for Mirrors Festival. He talked to Daniel about the true meaning of Christmas, the anxieties of a live
EPISODE 8: Tom Hyatt “It’s like the song is passing underneath and you stamp down and make an impression in the vinyl with it.” A few months ago Daniel made his way over to the banks of the Thames to chat to Tom Hyatt. Tom’s a folk musician, which marks a first for the podcast.
EPISODE 7: Gary Budden “I wanted landscape punk, not nature writing” Gary Budden met Daniel in a pub near Old Street for Episode 7. He’s the co-director of Influx Press, and an editor for Unsung Stories. Amongst many things we talk about the saviour of genre fiction awards Chuck Tingle, psychogeography, Hookland, and non-places in
EPISODE 6: Abi Hynes It’s the sixth episode of The Paperchain Podcast, and we move out of the studio to a very strange hotel that hates breakfast to chat with Abi Hynes, a Manchester based poet, writer, and playwright. We chat about how to know when something is a play, or a story; working with
