Hitting the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 25th, 2016, director Andrew Schwarz brings his vision of The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones to the screen. This Is Horror published the chapbook of The Elvis Room in March of 2014 to rave reviews, and now fans will get a chance to see the short …
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“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …
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Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …
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“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …
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“Grau takes you down dark, horrific pathways, keeping you on the edge of your seat and reading until the final, petrifying sentence.” Weird fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, possibly motivated by such authors as Simon Strantzas, Laird Barron, and Stephen Graham Jones, but perpetuated by newer faces on the scene such …
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With Resident Evil 7 preparing to lurch its way into our living rooms early 2017, This Is Horror looks at how horror and genre themes have established themselves in video games. In this first part, we look back thirty years to the earliest generation of gaming and find that as long as there have been …
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“The Suicide Motor Club is Buehlman’s best work to date and one of the best vampire novels to come along since Salem’s Lot.” Vampires have long been a fascination among readers and authors alike, ranging from Stoker’s classic Dracula to Stephen King’s exemplary Salem’s Lot and stopping at all points in between with Anne Rice’s …
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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: Charles Band And Full Moon Pictures Face Off! Wrong Turn Versus The Hills Have Eyes Penny Dreadful: Creating A World Of The Supernatural 8 Great Book To Film Horror …
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Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing has become synonymous with quality fiction that pushes the boundaries of reality, proving the world around us is often as unreliable as the narrator of the story. Their forthcoming anthology, Lost Signals, is one of the most anticipated volumes releasing this year and further evidence that they have their radar set …
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“Tremblay has a readily apparent love affair with humanity and it makes his story that much more vivid, poignant, and beautiful.” When you think of great American storytellers, there are some pretty common, almost household names, particularly if you’re a fan of dark fiction. Joe Lansdale is one, Cormac McCarthy another, and of course, Stephen …
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