Category: Features

Look Out For… The Fireman by Joe Hill and Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Look Out For… The Fireman by Joe Hill “An imaginative, sprawling, muscular beast of a novel.” Nobody knew where the virus came from. FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated it might’ve been created by engineers at …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 May 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: In Which We Answer Who, What, Where, and Why The Flying Eyes: They Fly, They Drip, And They Hate America Trapped on Tape: 10 Great Horror Movies that are …

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The Cutting Room – Blood Feast

Blood Feast

Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights, he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess …

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Give it All You Got by Giving it Away: How the Gift Economy is a Great Model for Professional Writers

The primary school my daughters used to attend had a strict non-competitive sports policy. This made their annual sports day a tedious affair. The main part of the day involved a song and dance routine that all the children performed, in which they sang about the importance of ‘taking part’ and patted themselves on the …

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Look Out For… Bodies Of Water by V.H. Leslie and Smoke by Dan Vyleta

Look Out For… … Bodies Of Water by V.H. Leslie “V.H. Leslie is one of the most talented writers the genre has.” After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 May 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: Revisiting Pet Sematary by Richard Chizmar Screaming in Your Living Room: How VOD is Changing the Horror Industry The Queen of Sheba Versus The Beautiful Menace From Mars: Joanna …

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The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest

With Natalie Dormer chiller The Forest set to hit DVD in June, we take a look at the disturbing real life Suicide Forest in Japan that provided inspiration for the film. The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest Every year, assembled groups made up of Japanese police and volunteers comb through the thirty-five kilometer expanse known …

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Paul Pinn: A Tribute

I didn’t know Paul Pinn that well on a personal level; we met in person once or twice, spoke on the phone a handful of times and corresponded by email. He wasn’t much taller than me, as I recall, with long dark greying hair pulled back in a ponytail and a strong London accent. There …

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The Cutting Room – Sadako vs. Kayako

A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki. Why we’re looking forward to this: What’s better than a new film featuring your favourite monster or psychopath, or indeed a new film …

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Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly and Diseases Of The Teeth by Simon Kurt Unsworth

Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly “Connolly balances both human and supernatural horrors with aplomb.” Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, …

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