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Film journalist (Radio Times, Flicks, SCMP, Empire), horror lover, author. Critics’ Circle. HWA. Repped by Sara Langham at DHA. mattglasby.com

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The Rip review: Damon and Affleck's latest cinematic reunion is less than the sum of its parts This Netflix crime thriller based on a true story is quite a ride – but the more things it tries to do, the less well it does them.

On The Rip www.radiotimes.com/movies/the-r...

17.01.2026 09:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The beautiful Book of Horror 2025 was released last week. 150 of the scariest films ever made, plus charts, graphs and bespoke illustrations by Barney Bodoano. Couldn’t be prouder. But it where you buy books #horror #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #horrorbooks

15.09.2025 14:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Anaconda (2025) review: Paul Rudd and Jack Black's comedy reboot is a regurgitated mess Paul Rudd and Jack Black are best friend making an Anaconda reboot in a meta Anaconda reboot. Read the Empire review.

On Anaconda for @empiremagazine.bsky.social

www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

15.01.2026 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What could have been a fresh take on familiar material ends up a regurgitated mess."

Paul Rudd and Jack Black play best friends remaking their favourite movie in a meta reboot of #Anaconda — in UK cinemas now.

Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

06.01.2026 11:48 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
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Film of the year #LondonCritics

15.12.2025 11:23 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Looking for some cool Halloween decorations? Try these super-fun horror posters by my old pal @andytuohydesign
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop

23.09.2025 08:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The beautiful Book of Horror 2025 was released last week. 150 of the scariest films ever made, plus charts, graphs and bespoke illustrations by Barney Bodoano. Couldn’t be prouder. But it where you buy books #horror #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #horrorbooks

15.09.2025 14:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A black fine line pen in a crosshatch technique and rolled printing ink on white paper illustration of a signalman standing at the foot of the steps up to his lonely signalbox. The little house shaped box is situated at the bottom of a steep and dank ravine, big slabs of blasted rock rise up to a wooded area, trees trunks, roots and branches twist up into the darkness. The Signalman stares into the mouth of a dark tunnel, rail tracks run parallel to the signalbox into the tunnel. Another figure stands at the mouth of the tunnel, it is shrouded in low lying mist. The only source of illumination is from the light inside the signalbox and a small glowing lamp above the ghostly figure at the tunnel mouth. Dark, damp, dripping, you can imagine the sound of wind blowing through the tunnel and the isolated ravine, not a place for a party but I’d be happy enough there (I’m odd).

A black fine line pen in a crosshatch technique and rolled printing ink on white paper illustration of a signalman standing at the foot of the steps up to his lonely signalbox. The little house shaped box is situated at the bottom of a steep and dank ravine, big slabs of blasted rock rise up to a wooded area, trees trunks, roots and branches twist up into the darkness. The Signalman stares into the mouth of a dark tunnel, rail tracks run parallel to the signalbox into the tunnel. Another figure stands at the mouth of the tunnel, it is shrouded in low lying mist. The only source of illumination is from the light inside the signalbox and a small glowing lamp above the ghostly figure at the tunnel mouth. Dark, damp, dripping, you can imagine the sound of wind blowing through the tunnel and the isolated ravine, not a place for a party but I’d be happy enough there (I’m odd).

Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.

15.09.2025 11:16 👍 169 🔁 42 💬 8 📌 6

Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it

03.09.2025 13:55 👍 1542 🔁 193 💬 79 📌 65

Thanks Jim!

08.09.2025 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Matt Glasby: The Horror Of My Life - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Matt Glasby shares his personal horror journey, from childhood scares to modern frights. Find your favorites.

Please welcome @mattglasby.bsky.social to GNoH with his entry in our The Horror of My Life series, where he discusses the films and books that shaped him into the horror fan that he is today.

Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article

gnofhorror.com/matt-glasby-...

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08.09.2025 07:39 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0

Celebrating 20 years of The Descent via @flicks.bsky.social with an extract from the forthcoming The Book of Horror 2025 out 4 Sept

18.08.2025 19:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The baddie is an unwieldy, unfrightening opponent.”

90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.

Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

21.07.2025 14:20 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration inspired by the Brocken Spectre phenomenon - a figure full of light in the foreground is projected into shadow on the horizon. Or something.

An illustration inspired by the Brocken Spectre phenomenon - a figure full of light in the foreground is projected into shadow on the horizon. Or something.

A black and white illustration inspired by the Jonathan Miller adaptation of the M R James story Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, My Lad. A dark figure in the distance pursues a man pictured in silhouette against a sun setting over the sea

A black and white illustration inspired by the Jonathan Miller adaptation of the M R James story Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, My Lad. A dark figure in the distance pursues a man pictured in silhouette against a sun setting over the sea

A black and white illustration of the Robert Eggars film Nosferatu. The figure of a woman in early Victorian high mourning walks through a snowy graveyard, flanked by two metal cross shaped grave markers

A black and white illustration of the Robert Eggars film Nosferatu. The figure of a woman in early Victorian high mourning walks through a snowy graveyard, flanked by two metal cross shaped grave markers

An ink drawing of the side view of a crow cawing

An ink drawing of the side view of a crow cawing

Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

11.07.2025 15:27 👍 511 🔁 204 💬 18 📌 19
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Dear writers,
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.

04.06.2025 08:53 👍 59 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Great! The new illos are some of the scariest in the book

28.05.2025 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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At 65, Bryan Adams is a master of crowd pleasers Backed by a three-piece band and an army of hits, at his Glasgow OVO show, the Canadian rocker makes sure everyone leaves happy

In praise of Bryan Adams discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/review/at-65...

15.05.2025 13:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't Make Me Laugh Don't Make Me Laugh eBook : Raeside, Julia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

My novel is 99p on Kindle for a limited time! Less than a Mr Whippy. Take it to the park this Bank Holiday weekend and buy it an ice cream. 🍦

02.05.2025 09:31 👍 18 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3

Every sentence forward is a sentence closer to done. No one cares how long a thing takes to write. No one ever asks. What matters is whether or not it is finished.

Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.

Just. Keep. Writing.

01.05.2025 18:08 👍 296 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 7
Colourful mural on the side of a pub on Church Street Glasgow, bearing the city's motto "Let Glasgow Flourish" the crescent moon and Jupiter in the night sky above.

Colourful mural on the side of a pub on Church Street Glasgow, bearing the city's motto "Let Glasgow Flourish" the crescent moon and Jupiter in the night sky above.

Let Glasgow Flourish, featuring the Moon and Jupiter.

30.04.2025 21:54 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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Coming your way in September 2025

25.04.2025 17:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

REC2 absolutely rules! Give it a chance

25.04.2025 10:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the UK too?

22.04.2025 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The director is also a lovely guy and he got his dad to make all the interdimensional doorways that feature in the movie (there are quite a few)

19.04.2025 19:08 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0