“X-The Unknown” Special Edition Box Set
Hammer Film’s latest release is the Special Edition box set of X The Unknown, and among the heafty special features is a documentary “Displaced and Damned” about director Joseph Losey, who was breifly attached to direct X The Unkown and went on to directg Hammer’s The Damned. In the documentary a handful of very clever historians, including…
Behind the Scenes of “Cosis”
Last weekend we were down in Canterbury filming the wrap-around for our next horror anthology: COSIS. If you’ve seen Darner, that short will ultimately end up in the anthology along with six other segments; all surreal experiences of psychoses taken to their horrific extreme. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll leave you with some…
Natural Thorn Killers on the Horror Fam Roundup!
It’s always exciting to meet another horror-loving Lauren, and Lauren Spear, who runs the Horror Fam is a serious horror fan, and a huge supporter of indie horror. So we were thrilled to see that Natural Thorn Killers made it into this month’s horror roundup, right at the top of the “Indie Horror Books” list. If…
Working with Hammer Films!
I have been keeping this under my hat for a while, but I am delighted I can now say that a dream beyond my wildest has come true: I got to work with Hammer Films. Yes, I was interviewed for the Blu-ray extras for the upcoming collector’s edition release of X-The Unknown! Of course, I…
One Week until “Darner” is at Horror On Sea
Next week our unsettling short film “Darner” will be showing at the Horror-On-Sea Takeover day of the South-End Film Festival! The Director, James Edward Newton, will be there along with Tony and I. We will introduce the film at 11:00am and then screen it before the noon feature. Afterwards we will have a table in…
Book Party for Natural Thorn Killers
Over the weekend, we had the book party for Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror. It was an absolute smash! The Cooper’s Arms was filled to the rafters (thankfully wiht air conditioning!) and the lovely Janina Faye of Day of the Triffids fame was there to help us kick it off. We mingled…
“Darner” Interview in Blazing Minds
Our creepy, bizarre horror short “Darner” is heading to the South End on Sea Festival in June! Ahead of the screening, the director, James Newton, and I did an interview with Blazing Minds to talk all about the film. From its very personal origins, through meetings with Adrienne King, and then actually being made and…
Bloody Flicks Book Review
We just got a really thoughtful, honest, and engaging review of Natural Thorn Killers from the amazing team at Bloody Flicks UK. Reviews are always so helpful to authors, because they give the reader’s perspective, helping us find readers who actually want to read our book – but ones like these are special. You can tell…
We’re on Lydia’s Books of Terror
As a big fan of the “Dead Air” podcast, I am very excited to say that our book, Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror made it only Lydia Preeve’s Lydia’s Books of Terror April watch list! We are the only non-ficiton on the list, but got a lot of love and are so…
“Natural Thorn Killers” Available for Pre-order
It’s finally here for Pre-Order, coming out 24 April! Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror Written by Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters in horror…
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