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Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner and I Know Who Did It by Steve Mosby

Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner “You can never tell what is going to happen in a Cate Gardner story.” You’re not the first to talk to your dead here, the vagrant said. The living always chase after their dead until they come upon their own. Formed from shadow and dust, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 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: The H Word: The Politics of Horror How Do Horror Video Games Work, and Why Do People Play Them? The Evolution of the Slasher Film ‘Day Of The Dead’: George Romero’s Gruesome …

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The Cutting Room: Into The Grizzly Maze

After a relentless grizzly starts to wreak havoc on a small town, the sheriff heads into the forest to find his ecologist wife but instead crosses paths with his estranged, ex-con brother. They soon find themselves on the run from the massive grizzly bear. The hunted become the hunter in this edge-of-your seat thriller about …

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Look Out For… Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand and Sunny, With A Chance Of Zombies

Look Out For… Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand “Hand turns her formidable talents as a horror writer to the classic haunted house story” From the award-winning author of Waking The Moon, a short novel of unexpected terror When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 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: How Horror Games Give Us the Fright We’re Looking For Cannibalism and Other Nightmarish Things: Sleeping Beauty Looking Back at M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening The Essential Guide to Streaming Stephen King …

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The Cutting Room: Creeper

Heather and her friends have some devilish fun on the social website, ConnectMeNet. However, their amusement has come at the expense of a lonely and medicated half-wit, Jerry Tobin. After goading him into humiliating himself on camera in various cruel acts of depravity, they post the clips online for the world to see in a …

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Look Out For… Point Hollow by Rio Youers and The Dulwich Horror & Others by David Hambling

Look Out For… Point Hollow by Rio Youers “Youers’s stories are always immaculately constructed, written with a sure sense of both character and setting.” Point Hollow, NY. A town with secrets. To the tourists that visit each summer, it is quintessential America. They stroll through its picturesque streets and hike its stunning trails. No one …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 June 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: 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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Tattered Tomes: And the Circus Comes to Town – Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes

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 and Sisters Of The Revolution

Devils Breath

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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