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REVIEW BY LOST SOULS MAGAZINE The Horror Express  bi-annually, 84pgs, £4.00 Weighing in at 84 pages this short fiction magazine is larger than most, although unfortunately it’s only published twice a year at the moment. This horror magazine mixes big name contributors, such as Shaun Hutson and Simon Clark, with lesser-known horror names, and new writers. The mix of stories ranges from a tale of a murderous, revolting Santa and his equally revolting helpers in a department store (Shaun Hutson’s opener, Silent Night), to a story about a woman who clones her own mother to take revenge on her for her father’s death (the closing tale, Like Mother, Like Daughter by Barry J. House.) Along the way there are tales of: strange creatures scuttling around in the dark (Leila Eadie’s In the Dark) in an underground railway station during a power cut, a worm-like winged creature that appears above the house of a woman and her husband, which takes a shine to their apple tree (in Peter J. Merrigan’s Manzano) a story about a hungry ghoul (Tim Curran’s Hunger Pains) a tale about someone with a phobia of the number 13 (apparently it’s called triskaidekaphobia - you learn something new everyday on the horror express!) and who gets a job on the thirteenth floor of a department store, oh dear (in Jeff Skinner’s Death Stop 13.) As well as fiction there are interviews with the star of the Evil Dead trilogy, Bruce Campbell, and author Storm Constantine. And regular features, Kevin Etheridge’s Horror Bookshelf, this issue centring on best-selling and prolific horror (and many other a genre) writer Graham Masterson, and The Review Column, which this issue reviewed books, Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas and Christopher Fowler’s Full Dark House, as well as movies, the Stephen King adaptation Dreamcatcher, and The Butterfly Effect. All this and, poetry too! Get aboard the Horror Express; it’s a ride and a half! For more information about The Horror Express, and details of subscriptions and writer’s guidelines, visit the website: www.horrorexpress.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk