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Darkness has descended over the northwestern town of Cold Rock. One by one, it's children are disappearing. They leave behind neither clues nor credible witnesses, but instead a legend, a story cloaked in shadows passed from neighbor to neighbor... And with it, a building sense of terror which threatens to devour what's left of the community itself. Superstitious locals talk of 'The Tall Man,' a mysterious figure who takes the children away, never to be seen again. But Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) has no time for legends or superstitions. A nurse doing her best for the emotionally distraught and economically devastated former mining town, she tries instead to preserve a semblance of normality both at work and at home. Until terror enters her own front door. Waking up in the middle of the night, she races to her child's bedroom, only to discover an empty bed and a hulking specter in the downstairs doorway who steals off into the darkness with her boy (Jakob Davies). As Julia follows in pursuit, she will stop at nothing and will risk everything to save him. Joined by determined investigator, Lt. Dodd (Stephen McHattie) and the town's local sheriff (William B. Davis), the chase is on and with it the quest for answers: Who is 'The Tall Man'? What has become of the children? Soon, the town of Cold Rock will have the answers it so desperately seeks, answers that will shake the community to it's core. A suspense-filled thriller like no other, THE TALL MAN mines a corrosive world of fear and terror before ultimately revealing it's own unimaginable truth.
While Kate's new fringe stole much of the limelight on the couple's visit to Cambridge, Prince William, pictured, appeared more interested in accepting a gift that could come in handy for the pair - a babygro.
In the blink of an eye, around the corner, The Weird is everywhere. It's in the bird that turns out to be a fluttering newspaper, that white shoe left in a ploughed field, or the curdling smoke on the windscreen of a car, caused by the fast-moving reflection of clouds overhead. Normal is often weird and vice-versa. We're used to weird dreams but what about the wide-awake weird? This collection celebrates evocative tales of oddness that span the genres of magic realism, the supernatural, the fantastical and the speculative. Weirdness lurks beyond the margins of the mundane, emerging to dismantle our assumptions of reality. When we encounter strange intervals, our perception of the natural order is challenged and changed. It is perhaps in those moments, that we glimpse the hidden truth of all things. Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre - the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university. Contributors include: Martina Bellovičová, J. E. Bryant, Glynis Charlton, Danielle Collard, Storm Constantine, Louise Coquio, Elizabeth Counihan, Krishan Coupland, Elizabeth Davidson, Siân Davies, Jack Fabian, Paul Finch, Rosie Garland, Rhys Hughes, Kerry Fender, Andrew Hook, Paul Houghton, Tanith Lee, Lisa Mansell, Kate Moore, Tim Pratt, Nicholas Royle, Michael Marshall Smith, Paula Wakefield, Ian Whates and Liz Williams.
Just a week before her wedding to Prince William, the bride-to-be hit the shops on Kings Road in Chelsea for a second day running with hardly any security as onlookers gathered to catch a glimpse of their future Queen.
Neil Patrick Harris stars in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary finale, "The Giggle", as Classic Who villain, the Toymaker.
David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor faces an old foe in the third and final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special, “The Giggle”, but just who exactly is The Toymaker (played this time around by Neil Patrick Harris) who will likely play a part in Tennant’s regeneration into Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa i...
