Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: How Jaws Took a Bite Out of America Revisiting Firestarter by Richard Chizmar Constructive Storytelling: Why Horror is Good For You, Part Two The Fly: A Retrospective by David Moody The 12 …
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My relationship with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes began with another book. Already familiar with Bradbury’s work after reading The Martian Chronicles and a few of his many collections of short stories, it was reading Stephen King’s Danse Macabre that led me back to the writer that started it all for me. The …
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Look Out For… Devil’s Breath by Greg F. Gifune “Combines a fast-paced, high-stakes plot with a graceful and even darkly poetic style.” In a dying coastal town near Cape Cod, Stanley Falk lives a quiet and unassuming life as a dishwasher. A shell of what and who he once was, Stanley is a man with …
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In a post-apocalyptic parallel future of 1997, an orphaned teenager called The Kid scavenges the Wasteland searching for relics from a better time (the 80s). During one of his expeditions he meets Apple, a mysterious girl with a rather large secret. As their relationship deepens, they accidentally run afoul of Zeus, the self-proclaimed leader of …
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Horror fiction and heavy metal go together like a fist fuck and five star lube. Many horror fans have a weakness for doom laden power chords and a dark driving beat, and who can blame them given the things they read and watch. Everyone knows that the Dark Lord’s had all the heaviest tunes since …
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Look Out For… Little Girls by Ronald Malfi “Accelerates towards a relentless and twist-filled climax.” From Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi comes a brilliantly chilling novel of childhood revisited, memories resurrected, and fears reborn… When Laurie was a little girl, she was forbidden to enter the room at the top of the stairs. It …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: How Horror Movies Helped Me To Get Over My PTSD Cinematography Tips For Horror Filmmakers Are Women Changing the Face of Television’s Horror Genre? And Then a Cat Jumps Out: In Defense …
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A musical-comedy homage to the musicals and films of the 1950s, Zombie Prom tells the story of a forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie. Why we’re looking forward to this: If the prospect of …
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Stories for children have been very much on my mind of late, especially as I’ve been trying to introduce our eldest daughter – Maia, 4 years old – to more complex works of children’s literature. She was very happy to sit through readings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, probably because she’s already seen the …
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Look Out For… … Finders Keepers by Stephen King “A taut and masterful thriller.” ‘Wake up, genius.’ So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not …
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