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	<title>A Passion For Horror</title>
	<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk</link>
	<description>Book, audiobook and DVD Reviews. Also some classic horror movies to download.</description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:03:43 +0100</pubDate>
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		<title>Book Review: The School</title>
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		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The School is 245 pages long and the central characters in the story are Frank and Allison Hitchcock, a normal middle-class couple, who are haunted by the memory of their dead son Joey. When they vacate the beachside property where Joey lived and died though, and move into the old school on Ohio Road, the Hitchcocks find themselves haunted by something a little more tangible than just memories and Allison begins to believe that the unusual atmosphere present in the building may be able reunite them with their son... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Bodysnatcher(read by John L. Chatty)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/_GxB9d7neyA/the-bodysnatcher.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bodysnatcher first saw print in an 1884 edition of the The Pall Mall Gazette Extra. Inspired by the events surrounding the infamous Burke and Hare and the surgeon Robert Knox who paid them to do what they did, Stevenson�s story is about two young medical students who also worked for Knox (referred to as �K� in the story), and how their actions haunted them for the rest of their lives... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: Rats(read by James Mio)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/GFZHn8DWNec/rats.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Rats begins with the tail end of another story: And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged, mouldy bedclothes a-heaving and a-heaving like seas. And a-heaving and a-heaving with what? Why, with the rats under em. The narrator has obviously been listening to this story and seems to have some doubts about it because he remembers hearing another similar tale when he was much younger and in that case the thing hidden beneath the blankets was not rats at all, but something much worse... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Red Room (read by B.J. Harrison)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/PpET75hTGlA/the-red-room.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[H G. Wells wrote The Red Room in 1894. It is a ghost story, written in the first person and set in an old castle that boasts a haunted red room. The protagonist of the story is never named, but he has arrived at the castle with the sole intention of spending the night in the haunted room just to prove that it is not haunted at all... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Red Church</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/o-VhdwbH6aE/the-red-church.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Red Church was Scott Nicholson's first novel and it is so good that it was nominated for a Stoker Award in 2002. The story is set in the isolated town of Whispering Pines, up in the Appalachian Mountains and the first chapter of the book introduces young Ronnie Day who is thirteen-years-old and already has more than his fair share of things to worry about. For one thing his parents have separated and now they only ever seem to get together to share an argument. It isn't easy when you come from a broken home and it doesn't help matters when you have a dingle-dork like Tim for a younger brother. Dingle-dork or not though, deep down Ronnie loves his little brother and he knows that it is his job to take care of him... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Hand (read by B.J. Harrison)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/a-1hdD-4g9Q/the-hand.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hand was written in the 1880s by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is considered by many to be the greatest French short story writer. The story begins with a crowd of people gathered around the magistrate, Monsieur Bermutier, who is expressing his opinion about an inexplicable crime that has been the talk of Paris for the last month... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Beast House</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/9U9viCR8ZQg/the-beast-house.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Beast House is the second book in Richard Laymon's Beast House series. The book is 369 pages long and although it would be possible to read it as a stand-alone novel, reading The Cellar first will give you a better understanding of the story. I must warn you though that neither book is suitable for the faint-hearted. So if sex and horror offends, you might want to avoid a tour of the Beast House... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Tell-Tale Heart (read by David Ian Davies)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/AlvCfjnaXZ0/the-tell-tale-heart.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart was first published in 1843; it is one of Poe's most famous short stories and even to this day it is regularly anthologized.  The story is told in the first person and although right from the beginning the narrator tries to defend his sanity it is blatantly obvious that he is more than a little deranged. The Tell-Tale Heart is not just the story of a madman though; it is also the story of a murder. The narrator shared a house with an old man and after days of careful planning and preparation the narrator murdered him... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Candlenight</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/AQF_aWH4-0c/candlenight.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Candlenight is set in the fictional Welsh village of  Y Groes. Surrounded by beautiful countryside and with picture-postcard views the village looks like a little slice of paradise, but there is a darker side to Y Groes and it is a closed community that offers little welcome to outsiders. Especially the English... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: L.T.'s Theory of Pets (read by Stephen King)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/dQvJJ_AM6AU/LTs-theory-of-pets.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[In August 1998 Stephen King did a reading at London's Royal Festival Hall. This was the first time he had ever done a reading in the UK and I am not sure if he has done one since, what I do know is that the evening was a sellout. The story King read that night was  L.T.'s Theory of Pets. At that time the story had never been... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Monkey's Paw</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/03vWhM_nFX0/the-monkeys-paw.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[W.W. Jacob's short story The Monkey's Paw was first published in 1902 and is rather a scary tale. To this day it is often included in anthologies and the story has stood the test of time quite well. This recording of the story is narrated by B.J. Harrison and was originally released as episode six of The Classic Tales Podcast and has a runtime of about twenty-seven minutes... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Legend of Hell House (1973)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/x0bJX0_eQms/the-legend-of-hell-house.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on the Richard Matheson novel Hell House, The Legend of Hell House is a classic haunted house story that knocks the spots off a lot of modern films.  Special effects in the film are minimal but a solid story like this one has little need of technical trickery to impress the viewer. Having said that, I suppose it is possible that those viewers who have grown up with a diet of CGI and other special effects may not find the film quite to their tastes. It is just a personal opinion, but I sometimes think that these days people are more concerned with the... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Moonlit Road (and other stories)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/vWV0wS3C56M/the-moonlit-road-and-other-stories.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[All of the stories included in The Moonlit Road collection are classic ghost stories from the mid to late nineteenth century. The stories are read by Jonathan Keeble, Clare Anderson , Garrick Hagon and Kate Harper and are recorded onto two CDs with a total runtime of about two hours and twenty-six minutes. An eleven page booklet is included with the CDs and it gives a... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: Spine Chillers</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/7p4M-agW9r0/spine-chillers.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Amazon and other retailers catalogue Spine Chillers as an audiobook this compilation is not really an audiobook at all. Most listeners, myself included, expect an audiobook to be a recording of someone reading a story from a book. That is not what you get with Spine Chillers. Spine Chillers consists of five short ghost stories that were... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Mailman</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/C1RTIHob1Qs/the-mailman.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Bentley Little's novel The Mailman (not to be confused with Little's short story The Mailman) is set in the small town of Willis Arizona where trouble arrives in the form of a new mailman. The town's previous mailman, a guy named Bob Ronda, had been doing the job for years and he was about as reliable as you could get. The people of Willis never had a bad word to say about him. Then, for no reason at all, Bob decided to suck on his shotgun and blew himself away... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Dark Tower</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/3FXds6wOxXA/dark-tower-7.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[There are seven books in the Dark Tower series and, one after another, they tell the tale of the gunslinger Roland Deschain and chart his journey to the Dark Tower he has spent his life searching for. In the final book of the series, called simply The Dark Tower, that journey comes to an end and I do not think I will be giving too much away if I tell you that... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Heart-Shaped Box</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/APassionForHorror/~3/yKirHjjAOEM/heart-shaped-box.htm</link>
		<author>Steve Calvert</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Heart-Shaped Box is the story of a middle-aged rock star called Jude Coyne. Jude has a fascination with the strange and macabre and has managed to build up quite a collection of weird artefacts, which includes an authentic snuff movie, a cannibal's cookbook and a three-hundred-year-old confession from a witch. He doesn't own a ghost though, not yet, and so when he sees one... [Excerpt only. Full&nbsp;review available on site]<BR><BR>]]></description>
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