Category: Features

Look Out For… Ride The Dark Country by Benedict Jones and Cassilda’s Song

Look Out For… Ride The Dark Country by Benedict Jones “Ride The Dark Country presents stories of the Wild West filtered through a horror lens.” Ride The Dark Country is the new collection from Benedict J Jones, author of Pennies for Charon and Slaughter Beach. In these tales you’ll find cowboys and mountain men, ranchers …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 January 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: Charles Dickens and the Train of Death: The Story Behind the Classic Ghost Story ‘The Signal-Man’ Tall Man, Big Heart: A Tribute to Angus Scrimm Horror Writer Paul Tremblay on Deadlines, New England …

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The Cutting Room: Bunni

A group of teens explore an abandoned factory at the request of one of their friends. Little do they know he is leading them to a slaughter at the hands of his mentally deranged mother. Why we’re looking forward to this: Why we’re looking forward to this: We don’t need much convincing to sit down …

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Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas and Split Tongues by Kristi DeMeester

Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas “The Last Weekend is a typically riotous and inventive mix of the undead, dystopian fiction and paranoid conspiracy.” Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt refugee, failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished “driller” of reanimated corpses. …

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The Cutting Room: You Are Not Alone

An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare… With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to …

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Rise of the House of Dread: An Appreciation of Penny Dreadful

Rise of the House of Dread An Appreciation of the Showtime Original Series Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful is the Saturday Creature Feature television series you didn’t even know you were craving. Combining the tales of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman and Dorian Grey, Showtime and Sky hid out in their laboratory and cobbled together this shiny …

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Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison and African Monsters

Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison “Ellison’s stories provide a skewed and indignant view on our own world and its foibles.” Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see ’em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he’s gone. Ellison’s a double agent who …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 January 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, and a whole new year of great articles hand-picked for your reading pleasure from the internet. Unsurprisingly, ‘best-of 2015’ lists are ubiquitous this week, but not here as, frankly, we’ve had enough of them. This week: Fangoria’s Petrifying Predictions for Horror in 2016! We All See Dead People: Horror’s Postmodern …

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Look Out For… Halfway Down The Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck and The Dichotomy Of Christmas

Look Out For… Halfway Down The Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck “Halfway Down The Stairs is a welcome and comprehensive retrospective of the short stories of Gary A. Braunbeck.” Climb halfway down the stairs with Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Gary A. Braunbeck, into worlds that occupy the spaces between “here” and “there,” where office workers …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 28 December 2015

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, where we bring you the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Horror Health Warning? Scary Films Really Can Curdle the Blood A Comprehensive Look at the History of Murder Santas Christmas Ghost Stories: A History of Seasonal Spine-Chillers Comics Alliance Best of 2015: Best …

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