by Charlotte Bond | January 14, 2021 | Blog
Various parts of the UK are facing snow right now. If you’re a snow-lover but haven’t had any yet, then fear not! Charlotte has made a list of the top books you can read to evoke the silence, majesty, and purity of the snow – combined with something...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 22, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJust in time for Halloween, we spoke to author Vivian Shaw about everyone’s favourite “monster” – the vampire! Immortal vampires have occupied the human imagination for centuries. Whether you...
by Lucy Hounsom | August 27, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSVariously listed as a horror, comedy and fantasy film by different websites, one thing is certain: Cabin in the Woods, by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, defies easy labelling. Is this a send-up of the horror genre in...
by Megan Leigh | June 4, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYou know the drill, you are alone in the middle of a foggy field and there’s no one within miles… except the person following you. There’s no one coming to help you. Isolation is an ever-present theme in horror...
by Megan Leigh | April 23, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen we pick up a book, we know we’re going to be told a story. We trust the author or, in the case of first-person POV the narrator, to tell us the truth. We might be reading about vengeful ghosts or glorious...
by Charlotte Bond | March 5, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
If there’s one person who lives horror as much as writes it, then it’s Thana Niveau. And her most recent project is to offer up a dyslexia-friendly horror book, Ultrasound Shadow, for Books on the Hill. So, we invited her over to BtGS to tell us a bit about her...
