Alan Toner's Blog, page 13
August 21, 2017
10 Horror Novels Every Aspiring Horror Writer Should Read
So you want to be a horror writer? So you want to create the creepiest stories you possibly can with a view to scaring the living daylights out of your readers? Well, as a horror writer myself, I would like … Read More
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August 20, 2017
Sir Bruce Forsyth – A TV Legend
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Like many people, I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Sir Bruce Forsyth, 89, on Friday afternoon. I knew he hadn’t been too well, and that had been absent from our screens for some time, but … Read More
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August 6, 2017
The Love Witch
I have just watched what has to be the most unusual, quirky, subversive – and so beautifully presented – witchcraft movie I have ever seen in my whole life. The movie is called The Love Witch, and here is … Read More
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August 3, 2017
Writing and Selling A Horror Screenplay
Being a horror writer, and having always harboured a burning desire to try my hand at writing and selling a horror screenplay, my appetite for pursuing this goal has been really whetted by this book, which promises to be the … Read More
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July 23, 2017
The Quiet Ones True Story
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Hammer’s supernatural movie The Quiet Ones, in which a University physics professor assembles a team to help create a poltergeist, is actually based on a true story which happened way back in the 1970’s, when a group of Canadian … Read More
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July 22, 2017
Rings Movie Review
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Here is a Rings movie review from Yours Truly. But then again, thinking it over, does a movie that was as chronically bad as Rings even DESERVE a review? Well, a GOOD review, that is, which this movie certainly does … Read More
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July 9, 2017
Paranormal Intruder Book
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I want to tell you about a book which, being a paranormal author myself, caught my interest whilst I was browsing on Amazon.
Doing fantastically well … Read More
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July 8, 2017
Emily Booth of The Horror Channel
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Emily Booth is more popularly known as the glamorous, dark-haired TV presenter of The Horror Channel.
Emily was born in Chester, England in 1976 but grew up in Hastings, East Sussex. Her paternal great grandfather built one of the first … Read More
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July 6, 2017
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage Limited Edition
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I am a big fan of Italian giallo movies, and one of my all time favourites in this genre is The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970). And … Read More
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July 3, 2017
The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier
This brilliant novella was made into an equally brilliant film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1962. However, the original 1952 Du Maurier story was quite different to … Read More
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