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AHS: Ch6 Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell (A.K.A. Yes I Know I Said Evan Peters Fifty Times and I’m Comfortable With That)

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We are now fifteen minutes and counting from the script-flip super major mid-season twist that Ryan Murphy won’t shut up about! I think he spent so much energy on the Fight Club rules premiere that he just can’t help himself: “Now everything will be different but have the same cast!” “Finn Wittrock is going to …

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Look Out For … The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories and Six Scary Stories

Look Out For … The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories “Even the most well-read horror fan will find gems in The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories new to them.” Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 24 October 2016

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 24 October 2016 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:   An Interview With Jasper Bark Cosmic Horror, Abjection And Social Media: A Conversation With Nick Mamatas Five Cancelled Horror Games …

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Every Day is Halloween

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“Well I live with snakes and lizards And other things that go bump in the night Cos to me everyday is Halloween I have given up hiding and started to fight I have started to fight” —Ministry Halloween, 2016 edition. In the Year of the Reaper, Halloween is a welcome diversion as we gear up …

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The Cutting Room: Tax Shelter Terrors

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Tax Shelter Terrors is a documentary about how the Canadian Government tax incentives helped develop Canada’s horror and exploitation film industry, creating some of that country’s genre films. Why we’re looking forward to this: Wait, come back. While not a horror film per se, this documentary explores the background to how some of the genre’s …

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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 5: Is That All There Is?

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Here we go. It is mere moments before the new episode, and I’ve heard a rumor so wonderful that I refuse to google it, because I WANT IT TO BE TRUE. I like being this excited for the new episode of AHS. Tonight, there will be Evan Peters. Considering we’ve had to wait so long, …

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Look Out For … Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Faust by George W.M. Reynolds

Look Out For … Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia “Certain Dark Things is an original, innovative reinvention of the staid vampire novel.” Welcome to Mexico City: an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 October 2016

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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:   10 Questions With Bruce Campbell 17 Ways To Write A Terrifyingly Good Horror Story An Appreciation Of The Curse Of The Crimson Altar Five Minutes With Joseph Schwartz …

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A Halloween Blast from the Past: The Nightmare Man

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With Halloween on the way, it’s a good time to find some suitably chilling reading or viewing for when the night wind howls outside. Maybe that’s why my thoughts turned to The Nightmare Man, the BBC TV adaptation of David Wiltshire’s novel. It scared the hell out of British viewers in 1981, and inspired a …

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The Cutting Room: Black Mirror

Black Mirror is an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world, with each stand-alone episode a sharp, suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of our lives; in every home; on every desk; in every palm—a plasma screen; a monitor; a Smartphone—a …

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