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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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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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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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Horror Movies: How Big Has Their Impact Really Been? The Lonesome Death of Pop Culture Icon Pinhead The Great Horror Debate with Jeff Burk and Robin Bougie Horror in Miniature: Five Terrifying …
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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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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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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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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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Look Out For… Do You Like To Look At Monsters? by Scott Nicolay “Nicolay’s stories build an atmosphere both of menace and ambiguity.” The World Fantasy Award-nominated story by Scott Nicolay, previously only available as a limited-edition chapbook, Do You Like to Look at Monsters? showcases one of the most exciting and unusual new voices …
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The world knows of the legacy of child killer Freddy Krueger thanks to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequels of varying quality, but every story has a beginning and now we’re being taken back to the time of the original crimes to see what turned Frederick Charles Kruger into the Springwood …
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