Panic Button: Film4 Frightfest red carpet video & stonking Screen Daily review

Posted on September 6, 2011 by frazerlee

Check out this cool video featuring interviews with the main cast & director of Panic Button at its Film4 Frightfest World Premiere. SPOILER ALERT: pretty major plot spoiler occurs around 8 mins into the video –

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Pleased as punch to report that Screen Daily features a review of ‘Panic Button’ by ‘Anno Dracula’ and Empire Magazine scribe Kim Newman. The review will soon disappear behind the Screen Daily premium content paywall, but meantime you can catch it here.

“(Panic Button) addresses its subject effectively, and may prompt some viewers to moderate online habits, but works primarily as a solid horror-thriller” (Kim Newman, Screen Daily)

That’s a keeper of a quote – thanks Kim!

Check out the Comments in my previous post (scroll down) for a ton of other reviews, mostly very positive indeed.

And don’t forget, ‘Panic Button’ hits UK DVD & Blu-ray November 7th thru UK distributor Showbox Films.

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Also in November, my horror novel ‘The Lamplighters‘ will be unleashed via Samhain Horror.

My next post will include news on the Samhain Publishing horror novels line, which launches October with works from Ramsey Campbell, Hunter Shea, Krist Rufty, Brian Moreland and others.

I will have a couple of cool Samhain Horror exclusives for you in the run up to the launch, so stay tuned on this blog and at The Lamplighters Facebook Page…

‘Til next slime, take scare!

News of the Weird

Posted on July 18, 2011 by frazerlee

This blog entry title seemed apt, what with all the gutter press controversy kicking off over here in the UK. Please allow me to divert you for a few moments, dear reader, with some choice web-links as there’s been a bit of a frightfully freaking Frazer frenzy these past few days.

First off, Horrorworld.org announced the Samhain Horror Publishing line-up for October-December of this year. The new line is headed by genre publishing legend Don D’Auria, with new and backlist titles by such luminaries as Ramsey Campbell along with new blood including yours truly. I’m honoured to be in such esteemed company.

My horror novel ‘The Lamplighters’ is published November (in ebook, with paperback due 3 months later). Very exciting! In addition to the Horrorworld splash, check out Don D’Auria’s interview over at Fangoria, in which he talks up the Samhain Horror offering.

Horror/thriller feature film ‘Panic Button’, on which I served as screenwriter, got a lot of love following the announcement about the World Premiere at Film4 Frightfest London this August with coverage on Dreadcental, Bloody Disgusting and more. Frightfest’s very own Alan Jones gave ‘Panic Button’ the #1 spot in his Top 5 Frightfest Picks, and Brutal As Hell carried a glowing advance review by Nia Edwards-Behi. The film is lining up more festivals, including Wales’ brilliant Abertoir in November. More news as it comes.

Last but not least, I did a ‘1 Minute Interview’ with the lovely and talented Denise Gossett for the L.A. Shriekfest newsletter. Sign up at their website for monthly horror industry goodies. You can see a PDF version of the newsletter, and interview, here.

That about covers it for now, meantime if any tabloid hacks would like to tap my phone, please be so good as to delete all the spam messages so I don’t have to… thanks 😉

Breaking News: ‘The Lamplighters’

Posted on April 21, 2011 by frazerlee

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that my first horror novel ‘The Lamplighters’ is to be published by Samhain Publishing.
More details (cover art, dates, etc.) as and when I get them.
Needless to say, I’m bloody excited by the prospect of working with Don D’Auria, one of the genre’s very best editors, to make the manuscript the best it can be.
The Samhain Horror line launches this Hallowe’en and I’m pleased as pumpkin punch that ‘The Lamplighters’ will be part of the line up… Cheers dear Readers!

(UPDATED) Ill Met By Kindlelight

Posted on October 13, 2010 by frazerlee

UPDATE (Dec 2010): Please DO NOT purchase “Ill Met By Moonlight” as the author’s contract with the publisher is over and the publisher Ghostwriter Publications is no longer authorized to sell this work.

The author will not be paid if you purchase this ebook!

You can read the full contents plus more stories in the collection “Urbane and Other Horror Tales” – all for the same low price, please go to Frazer Lee’s author page at: http://www.amazon.com/Frazer-Lee/e/B002L2PVAE or http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frazer-Lee/e/B002L2PVAE Thanks.

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I’m sure you’re familiar with the penny dreadfuls of yesteryear, also known as ‘chapbooks’.

Well, dear reader, this new-fangled 21st century ushers in the era of the ‘eChap’… and with it, the digital publication in Kindle format of ‘Ill Met By Moonlight’.

My volume in the Ghostwriter Publications eChap series also includes the story ‘Pendragon Rising’ and the ebook download is available now from Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Barnes and Noble.

I’m new to the (already very crowded) ebook arena but if this one’s a success you’ll no doubt see more of my titles published in pixels.

So if you do pick one up, I’d be very grateful if you could scribble a quick Amazon review, click on the ‘star rating’, recommend it to your friends/groups, or anything at all to spread the word, thanks!

Always good to try new things… and on that note, Horror Reanimated just published a very interesting article, by Donna Condon of Piatkus, on how authors may have to ‘adapt or die’ in the current publishing climate.

ebook: Urbane and Other Horror Tales

Posted on August 16, 2010 by frazerlee

My horror anthology ‘Urbane and Other Horror Tales’ is now published in an ebook edition via Smashwords.com.

Available in Kindle (.mobi), Stanza (Epub), Sony Reader (LRF), Palm and PDF formats.

The ebook contains 8 tales, with 3 previously unpublished, including an exclusive flash fiction bonus story, ‘Half/Life’.

You can sample or purchase ($0.99) the ebook here: http://smashwords.com/b/21752.

If you like what you read, please spread the word to your friends, followers and networks, thanks!