Open up this advent calendar of terror, for the 25 spine tingling days of Christmas. Unsettle in, for a Christmas feast that will be served chilled... to the very bone.
We all love a good Christmas ghost story or horror movie. If Hammer House of Horror, Tales of the Unexpected and Pans Books of Horror set your pulse racing and mind spinning as a youngster, then these stories, set at Christmas, offer the darkest recesses of your mind, a deliciously macabre feast in which to indulge itself.
* Founder of Create50 * Author of The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbooks series. * Filmmaker with four features and an Oscar shortlisted short under his belt. * Creative director at the London Screenwriters’ Festival * Founder of TEDxEaling
Passionate about all things film, I have spent my life watching movies, making movies and helping others make their movies. My major projects include action thriller ‘The Runner’, serial killer thriller ‘White Angel’ and paranormal horror ‘Urban Ghost Story’.
I also co-created and authored The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, and currently there are eight editions! I also made the multi-award winning and Oscars shortlisted film ‘Gone Fishing’.
I run the London Screenwriters Festival. TEDxEaling, as well as other training masterclasses.
In 2014 we completed our feature film, the crowd created 50 Kisses which entered the Guinness Book Of Records for most screenwriters on a feature film.
In 2016 we release our first Create50 book, Twisted50, available in soft back and Kindle.
I run regular film making workshops for filmmakers with low price points so everyone can attend and get making their projects.
Right now, I am developing the feature film ‘Rocketboy’ and running more Create50 projects.
Nothing celebrates the festive season quite as well as a advent calendar of horror stories. I love the fact that you get to read so many authors and so many styles of writing all in the one place. Its a great book and part of a really great collection of books by the Twisted50 team. If you love the genre then you need to check them all out!
If I had to describe this collection of creepy tales in a word, it would be "discomfited." Several of these stories are truly creepy, some of them very unsettling, and the rest interesting if not as catchy. The "advent calendar" idea was quite clever. The addition of the early-1900s tales was nicely done. I know I'll be looking up several authors in this book for other writings of theirs.
I absolutely loved this spooky little Christmas horror anthology! my favourite story was 'The E.D.P' by Aaron Nash. Usually with anthologies for me, I only really like a couple of the stories, but I honestly enjoyed every single one in this book! Definitely a good edition to my Christmas horror collection!