Years before Marion Crane made the unwise decision to spend the night at the Bates Motel, young Norman and his mother Norma (still very much alive at this point) were already getting up to all kinds of adventures. Why we’re looking forward to this: About to kick off its fourth season, Bates Motel has been …
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Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle “Scary, unpredictable and wonderfully evocative of the grimier side of the Jazz Age.” People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: Thomas Ligotti’s Uncanny Horror and the Future of Holocaust Fiction The Pathetic Fallacy Made Flesh: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” Love For The Craft: The Weird Tales Of W.H. …
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Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …
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Day Two A day in a dusty Asylum is much better when started with a shower. Even though I used the other shower this time, in a completely different room, I still had that uneasy feeling of company when no one else was there. It was a very quick shower. Croissants again for brekkie and …
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Darling follows a lonely young woman who moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion. Hired as caretaker, it’s not long before she discovers the estate’s haunted reputation and troubling past—stories that slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness. Why we’re looking forward to this: There’s something about black and …
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If you’re a regular listener to the This Is Horror Podcast you’ll know that Richard Thomas is currently twenty-four days into his Kickstarter for new dark fiction magazine, Gamut. But launching an online magazine isn’t as simple as it may sound. In fact there are a multitude of mistakes and overlooked costs. With that said it’s …
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Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig “Double Dead and its sequel are irreverent, gory, and very humorous.” A vampire in zombieland. You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, because he doesn’t like people much either. People are food. Five years ago, Coburn went to sleep–wasn’t exactly …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: Revisiting Cycle of the Werewolf by Richard Chizmar The Horrifying, Controversial and Secret History of the Snuff Film Nightbreed: The Enduring Appeal of a Horror Classic Black Horror Films of the 30s and …
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Look Out For… Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian “Reality in Ecstatic Inferno is malleable, with the ghost of Philip K. Dick never far away.” WARNING: THIS BOOK IS A PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE. From the moment you start to turn the pages, it will soak into your central nervous system, subtly and subversively reprogramming you at the DNA level. Each of …
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