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Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson and The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women

Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson “Thompson combines the breakneck pace of the best thrillers with the dark atmospherics of horror, with the result being distinctively his own.” When a policeman accidentally runs over a young boy on a fog-shrouded street in Saginaw, Michigan, it thrusts three families into a head-on …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 June 2016

Charles Band

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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The Cutting Room – Dead Rising 4

Dead Rising 4

Frank West, hero of the original Dead Rising returns to Willamette, Colorado sixteen years after the original zombie outbreak to discover that Black Friday is about to get much nastier than it usually is. Fortunately he has an arsenal of weapons at his disposal, not to mention a super skeleton suit and dozens of vehicles. …

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Go Straight to Hell, Do Not Pass Go: The World of Horror Board Games

Alien Board Game

Go Straight to Hell, Do Not Pass Go: The World of Horror Board Games Like all good things, our toys coverage comes to a trilogy capping third and concluding part with a look at horror related board games. You may think that horror games would be better set within the video game world, with their …

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Look Out For… Singing With All My Skin and Bone by Sunny Moraine and Best Horror Of The Year: 8

Look Out For… Singing With All My Skin and Bone by Sunny Moraine “These are no mere fictions but incantations of something both unnerving and beautiful.” Come, my love, and I’ll tell you a tale. Tell me about the times before the fires. Sit down beside me in the dust and tell me stories of …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 14 June 2016

Wes Craven Scream

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 20 Best Horror Films of the Last 20 Years Top 10 Horror Movies that Deserve a Sequel Where to Begin With Folk Horror Which Horror Movies Are You …

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The Cutting Room – Inoperable

Inoperable Danielle Harris

Danielle Harris plays a young woman in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching that has awakened malevolent forces inside. The woman realizes she is trapped in a time loop and must escape the hospital before the storm passes, or she will be trapped there forever. Why we’re looking forward to this: Done well, …

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Look Out For… Secret Language by Neil Williamson and Sentinels by David Longhorn

Look Out For… Secret Language by Neil Williamson “Williamson’s work is always taut, dark and powerful.” Secret Language is Neil Williamson’s first collection in ten years, but it has been worth the wait. A regular contributor to magazines such as Interzone and Black Static, Williamson’s short fiction has gained plaudits from critics and readers alike. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 June 2016

Boris Karloff

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: Why Are There So Few Sympathetic Horror Film Monsters? Q&A With Telluride Horror Show Director Ted Wilson 1997: A Good Year For Horror A New Beginning: An Introduction to …

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The Cutting Room – Quatermass

Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass follows a professor and his daughter who investigate an alien invasion. Why we’re looking forward to this: With just about everything under the sun having been given the reboot treatment in the last few years, it’s about time that one of the quintessential British science fiction / horror series was given its time in …

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