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5 Must Read Horror Articles 10 February 2024

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado:

Bloody Disgusting look back twenty-five years at the gore and over-the-top camp of Resident Evil: Codename Veronica

Aaron Boehm of Bloody Disgusting dusts off his old Sega Dreamcast to reminisce about the extraordinarily gory and camp Resident Evil: Codename Veronica.

The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Youngblood Library selects unmissable YA and MG horrors for January and February

Tony Jones, curator of The Young Blood Library, digs into the stacks to find the very best YA and MG horror and dark fiction releases for January and February in this article for The Ginger Nuts of Horror.

What Sleeps Beneath consider the ever changing setting of Dracula’s castle in the Castlevania series

Brandy Hadden, writing for What Sleeps Beneath, looks at the role of the setting – Dracula’s castle – in the Castlevania games and finds a character with a unique sense of self.

Dread Central look back to 1988’s The Serpent and the Rainbow and find a Wes Craven film deserving of more love

Dread Central’s Tyler Doupe’ looks back thirty-seven years to one of Wes Craven’s less celebrated movies in The Serpent and the Rainbow, and finds a film deserving of more love.

Legendary editor Ellen Datlow sits down with The Horror Tree to talk about the year’s best horror and much more

Ellen Datlow, editor or The Year’s Best Horror and myriad other fabulous anthologies and magazines, talks to The Horror Tree’s Paul St John Mackintosh.

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KEV HARRISON