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Look Out For … Cinderwich by Cherie Priest

Cinderwich by Cherie Priest - cover

“With her latest, Priest presents readers with a small-town mystery wrapped in a road-trip to a city shrouded in a horrifying past.” “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Originally spotted by trespassing children decades ago, no one knows who put Ellen’s corpse in the treetop to this day. Hoping this was their Ellen, Kate …

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Authorcon 3/Scares That Care 2024 Roundup with Kev Harrison and Michael Clark

Kev Harrison and Michael Clark at Authorcon 3 2024

Two weeks ago, I went to Authorcon 3, part of the Scares That Care series of horror conventions in Williamsburg, VA. It was my first big convention of this kind, and I shared a vendor table with fellow author Michael Clark, who had visited Scares That Care previously, way back in 2021, though this was …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 April 2024

Hereditary

  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: Dread Central watch Hereditary in iMax and discover that it’s even more terrifying The Lineup present ten terrifying radio horror books to help you find horror among the static Nightmare …

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Look Out For … Kosa by John Durgin

Kosa by John Durgin - cover

“With his latest, Durgin takes readers on a strange coming-of-age journey with an isolated young girl and her enigmatic and overpowering mother.”  Kosa lives in a mansion, secluded from the outside world. Her life revolves around the strict rules of her mysterious mother. These rules are the guiding principles of Kosa’s life, the basis of …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 April 2024

OutlastTrials

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: Dread Central explain why the latest entry in the Outlast series is so scary it’s unreviewable The Ginger Nuts of Horror talk all things Women in Horror with Linda D. …

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Look Out For … My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen - cover

“With her debut novel, van Veen presents a gothic tale of a woman with a ghastly spirit companion caught in the embrace of sapphic desire.” Ruth. Dead for centuries. Strange, and very much like a corpse. She’s a spirit companion only Roos Beckman can see, and Ruth is the light of Roos’ life. Well, she …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 April 2024

Small Town Sunset

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: Crime Reads explain what it’s like writing a vampire novel in a small town in Texas Bloody Disgusting delve into the creation of invented folklore in SyFy’s Blair Witch …

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Look Out For … Undead Folk by Katherine Silva

Undead Folk by Katherine Silva - cover

“With her latest, Silva presents an apocalyptic tale of a woman facing horrors personal and grief-stricken in a world of darkness.” Just beyond the smoke-filled skies of a United States in the throes of an apocalypse, a woman treks the grim railroad tracks in a small town. With her only companion an undead fox, reanimated …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 April 2024

space-horror-feature

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: The Lineup pick out nine space horror novels packed with extraterrestrial terror Crime Reads explain in this brilliantly frank essay why we need black horror now more than ever …

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Look Out For … The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower

The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower - cover

“With her latest, Hightower delves into a haunted family’s nightmarish past and their need to finally confront the evil that has torn them apart.” The four Lasco siblings have been through a lot. They banded together to fight a world that failed to give them protection. One hellish night marked the end of their childhood. …

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