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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 July 2016

Resident Evil Nemesis

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: Ranking The Core Resident Evil Games Face Off! Independence Day Versus War Of The Worlds The History Of Dark Shadows Why Outcast Could Be The New Walking Dead Terror …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s The Dead Zone Revisited

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Following along with the psychic phenomenon craze of the 1970’s, The Dead Zone was one of many of the books by Stephen King to show us the horrors associated with the mind’s untapped abilities. Carrie covered telekinesis, and later little Danny Torrance had his ‘shine’ in the appropriately named The Shining. Many of the characters …

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The Cutting Room – Viral

Viral horror movie

Teenaged sisters Emma and Stacey live a normal life, until their small suburban neighbourhood is stricken with a mysterious parasitic virus. As the disease rapidly spreads throughout the town, the two band together to barricade themselves from infection. But it may already to be too late—when the virus enters their home, the sisters are faced …

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Look Out For… Nightjar Press Chapbooks

Look Out For… Nightjar Press Chapbooks “Nightjar Press publish chapbooks of individual short stories which are beautifully told, and which unnerve with accumulating, unnerving detail.” Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. It is brought to you by the people behind early 1990s British Fantasy Award-winning …

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Let’s Play a Game: The Evolution of Fear in Video Games

Wolfman cover

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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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 June 2016

Freddy Vs Jason

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 Real Story Behind Freddy Vs Jason Kane Hodder: Where Is He Now? How Well Do You Know Ghostbusters? Doom: A Bloody History What Brexit Could Mean For The …

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The Cutting Room – Westworld

Westworld HBO

A lawyer and businessman are among the visitors to Westworld, a futuristic theme park where the gunhands and dance hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests’ violent and lustful fantasies—until something goes wrong with their circuitry. No longer the guests’ obliging victim, a black-clad humanoid gunslinger turns on the two heroes and …

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The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful

The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful The following article covers the end of the television series Penny Dreadful, and while it does not go into any great detail, it does contain spoilers concerning the series finale. Readers are encouraged to proceed with caution. After three seasons, Showtime and Sky’s production of …

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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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