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5 Must Read Horror Articles 31 Dec 2018

  • December 31, 2018

  • 3 mins to read

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 run a feature article on Netflix’s dominance of the horror genre in 2018

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting writes a year-end editorial, looking at the ways in which Netflix was the main player in the horror genre for film in 2018.

The 1428 Elm site on Fansided lead with a retrospective on The Exorcist and the impact it continues to have on the genre today

1428 Elm’s Susan Leighton peels back the lid on The Exorcist and looks at how it continues to influence the genre, some forty-five years on.

LitReactor tells us how we can learn from The Year’s Best Horror anthology, every year

In this article by Richard Thomas, discover the many ways in which Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Horror anthology can be used and indeed is used by him, to level up your horror writing.

Kendall Reviews offers up a Christmas horror article from ‘King of Pain’ John F. D. Taff

As part of their December short, festive horror series, Kendall Reviews features a Christmas horror feature from John F. D. Taff, revealing some of the more horrific stories behind the holiday season.

The Horror Tree talks to author Steve Stred

Erin Al-Mehairi talks to Steve Stred about his fiction, his writing style and much more besides, for The Horror Tree.

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KEV HARRISON