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On Saturday 25th August, as part of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, the Edinburgh Filmhouse played host to a sold out screening of the first episode

In horror, you can’t keep a good corpse down, it would seem. It is ninety years since HP Lovecraft, who would have celebrated his 122nd birthday this week,

Brian Wood has built a reputation for using the comic medium to tell highly complex and often bleak tales about both human nature and the state of our

1973: Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highland Constabulary arrives at Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of young Rowan Morrison, and is confounded by the attitudes of the

It’s always disappointing to read a comic book that thinks it’s so much better than it actually is. This is the problem I was faced with as I

Erik Hendrix gives further proof that horror stories work well in comic book format with his latest release, The Evil Tree. After Daren moves out of NYC to

Toby Hadoke is no stranger to standup comedy, where he has long associations with Manchesters’ XS Malarkey Club, nor to the Edinburgh Fringe, where he first performed Moths

Of the writers shortlisted for the 2012 Arthur C Clarke award for best British science fiction novel, Jane Rogers was the outsider amongst established names like Greg Bear,

The Amazing Spider-Man is preceded by an awful lot of presumption and cynicism, and it is also impossible to discuss without mention of Sam Raimi’s films. A “reboot”

Director Timur Bekmambetov came to the attention of Western audiences in 2004 with his gritty, dark and stylish vampire thriller Nochnoy Dozor, perhaps better known as Night Watch.