Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: The Long, Lonely Walk: Hallways in Horror Films Here Be Monsters: A Personal History of Fear A Beginner’s Guide Through Hammer Horror From Dracula to The Strain: Where do Vampires Come From? …
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My First Thriller – Tim Lebbon on The Hunt
I’m a debut writer again. This is very exciting, because for almost twenty years I’ve been trying to become an overnight success! And now I have another chance. That’s flippant, but there’s also a serious point behind it. Writers often appear on the scene, as if from out of nowhere, and their novel hits hard …
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The Cutting Room: Goodnight Mommy
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is. Why we’re looking forward …
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Voluntarily Committed: My Stay in a Haunted Asylum – Part One
The lovely yet haunted Mayday Hills Asylum in Beechworth, Australia, looms over the township like a vulture, waiting for someone to die. In days past, it never had long to wait. Once a centre of misery and death, it now hosts businesses and contributes to the township’s tourism attraction. One of the events situated within …
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Tattered Tomes: If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub
Evil is what we call the force we can discover when we send our minds as far as they can go: when the mind crumbles before something bigger, harder than itself, unknowable and hostile. –If You Could See Me Now, page 285. Infatuated with his cousin Alison Greening, Miles Teagarden jumps at the chance to …
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The Cutting Room – Body
An idyllic Christmas holiday turns deadly when best friends Holly, Cali and Mel break into a local mansion they believe to be unoccupied. They quickly realize that they’re not alone in the house, however, and in a moment of panic become embroiled in a grisly murder. The three girls self-destruct as they try and figure …
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Disintegration: The Path to Release by Richard Thomas
It was a long time coming, this book – six years in the making. How did it all happen? It wasn’t easy, but here’s how it all went down. Originally I knew I wanted to follow up my first book, Transubstantiate, with a simple narrative – one POV, mostly linear, something dark that was based …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 July 2015
Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: 5 Things All Horror Fans Should Stop Saying Rubber Underdogs from the 80s: When Hollywood practiced Safe FX Academia vs. Imagination: The Problem of Intellectualism in the Works of Stephen King Motherhood …
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The Cutting Room: The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
Bully prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser), leading a big state prison in the US of A, has a lot of problems; his prison statistically has the highest amount of prison riots, medical costs and staff turnover in the country. But foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his …
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