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Books & Comics / Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2021

« on: 31 October, 2021, 03:03:18 PM »

Be kind, please rewind!



Unlucky for some! It lives again! Hallowscream has returned once more with a thrilling thirteenth issue filled with the usual frights, scares and horrible wriggly things. A free 48 page horror comic to download as a pdf, or read online!

Click here for more info and to download!

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Games / Wonderful Dizzy : New official Dizzy game for the ZX Spectrum

« on: 22 December, 2020, 05:42:12 PM »

http://yolkfolk.com/WonderfulDizzy/

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Books & Comics / Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2020

« on: 31 October, 2020, 03:45:32 PM »

“Last night I dreamt I went to Merjeagles again…”



Vampires! Ghosts! Monsters! Pumpkins! Squiggly things! All these and more can be found within the pages of the latest edition of Hallowscream! Back from the depths once more to fiddle with your fear-centres!

Click here for more info and to download!

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Website and Forum / Can't buy 2020 Specials Bundle from webshop

« on: 19 March, 2020, 05:39:08 PM »

I keep getting a "failure.Socket error 111: Connection refused" error message.

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Books & Comics / Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2019

« on: 31 October, 2019, 05:22:31 PM »

How would you like your stake?



It has returned from the eldritch depths once more… The eerie eleventh edition of the annual Hallowscream! Hallowe’en Special has materialised as a totally free pdf file! 52 terrifying pages filled to the brim with shocks and scares for your delectation!

Click here for more info and to download!

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Books & Comics / New Death's Head mini-series

« on: 25 March, 2019, 11:25:18 PM »

Out in July...
https://twitter.com/AgentM/status/1109870438354767872?s=19

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Help! / What was this scary comic strip in?

« on: 17 December, 2018, 02:44:17 AM »

Got a vivid memory of a story, not sure where it appeared, so just on the off-chance somebody knows...

It was the early-mid eighties. I think it may have been in a magazine which sometimes had comic strips in, rather than something that was fully strip-based. Some kind of teen/kids pop-culturey lifestyle magazine or something. I keep thinking of TV Tops, (perhaps when it was just Tops), but don't think it's that, because I remember that being quite comicy.

Story goes like this...

Car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. People in the car are a married couple and their horrible brat of a son, (possibly has curly blonde hair but don't quote me on that). They go to a nearby scary old house, owned by a scary elderly couple. Car couple ask scary couple if they can use their phone. While they are waiting on tow/repair truck / AA van, bored bratty son wanders up to dusty attic. Inside the dusty attic there is an old doll house. Inside the doll house there are three figurines, one of which is smaller than the other two. Bratty son takes the two larger dolls and breaks them beyond repair (think he snaps at least one of them in half). He then takes the smaller figure and jams it so firmly into the chimney of the doll house that no one will ever be able to get it back out again. Parents find him and tell him that they are now leaving.

Some time afterwards, the little boy is asleep in his own bedroom at night. He is awoken by the screams of his parents. He calls out, asking what's going on. Suddenly an invisible force comes in through the bedroom window, whisks him outside and jams him in the chimney of his house. The story ends with someone, (possibly a fireman), saying that he's stuck so tightly in the chimney that they don't know how they'll ever get him out.

Any ideas?

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Books & Comics / Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2018!

« on: 31 October, 2018, 02:03:49 PM »

Read any evil books lately?



The terrifying tenth edition of the annual Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special has been discovered on a dusty shelf in a dark corner of an out of the way second hand bookshop has been released as a totally free pdf file! 76 pages packed with peculiar and paranormal (paperback) perils for your perusal!

CLICK HERE FOR FULL LIST OF CONTENTS & DOWNLOAD LINKS!

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Books & Comics / Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2017!

« on: 31 October, 2017, 07:47:57 PM »

Size... of a horror comic...



The nasty ninth edition of the Hallowscream! Hallowe’en Special has arrived! 48 pages packed with peculiar and paranormal perils!

Click here for download links and full list of contents!

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Creative Common / Hallowscream! Nightmarish Ninth Issue Submission Guidelines!

« on: 04 May, 2017, 02:02:28 PM »

We at Back From The Depths are once again looking for contributors for our freaky free annual pdf horror comic, HALLOWSCREAM!



Click HERE or on the image above for the full submission guidelines.

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Books & Comics / The Hallowscream! 2016 Hallowe'en Special

« on: 31 October, 2016, 06:33:06 PM »

It's in the trees! It's coming!



The evil eighth edition of Hallowscream! is here!

Features : Ghosts! Werewolves! Space Mummies! Killer plants! The death of Santa! Other stuff!

CLICK HERE!
 

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General / Nope, Thrill-Mail droid, that's wrong.

« on: 28 April, 2016, 05:54:59 PM »

Contrary to this week's Thrill-Mail, Anna Ford was not the first female newsreader in the UK in 1978, she was just the first one at ITN.

Angela Rippon's even in Prog 1, for drokk's sake... Use yer ram-sticks!

(Actual first Female UK newsreader was Nan Winton, back in 1960, if you're wondering.)

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Creative Common / Anyone want to do the cover for HALLOWSCREAM! 2016?

« on: 30 March, 2016, 05:00:04 PM »

I'll be sticking up the general submission guidelines within the next few days, but before I do that, does anybody fancy having a go at the front cover for the next issue? A4 dimensions. You've got until October. It's a small press thing, available for free online, so you won't be getting any money, but you'll obviously keep the copyright to the artwork.

It can be any kind of random freaky monster beasty, (or beasties), or ghosty thing, (or things), but something a bit different from what's already appeared would be preferred. Here are the previous covers...



You can get a better look at them HERE, where you can also download the issues.

Don't worry about doing the text/logos, I'll add them later.

We'll probably also use any artwork we don't pick, inside the issue as part of a 'gallery', so if you've got more than one idea you want to render or other scary drawings just lying around, you can send them too.

Email to merjeagles @ yahoo.co.uk (without the spaces).

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Books & Comics / The Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2015

« on: 31 October, 2015, 05:33:51 PM »

Presenting the shockingly scary seventh issue of Hallowscream, the free annual pdf horror comic...



CLICK HERE or HERE to download a copy.

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Games / Unreleased Dizzy NES game, free to play in yer browser...

« on: 25 October, 2015, 12:49:14 AM »

Recently rediscovered in the Oliver Twins's attic. The layout's the same as Magicland Dizzy but it has different puzzles...

http://www.wonderlanddizzy.com/