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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 May 2015

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Is ‘It Follows’ Paving the Way to a New Era for Indie Genre Films? Eaten Alive: The Bizarre True Story Behind Tobe Hooper’s Alligator Horror Movie 10 Crazy …

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Terror Tots: The Children (2008)

On this particular entry of Terror Tots, we’re taking hold of the title of a film we’ve already delved into (1980’s The Children), and giving it a jump through time to 2008. No – it isn’t a remake, but it is another ‘parents vs. kids’ jamboree… in Tom Shankland’s 2008 British shocker, The Children. It’s …

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Look Out For… The Familiar Volume 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski and If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub

Look Out For… The Familiar Volume 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski “You’re unlikely to have ever read anything quite like this.” From the author of the international best-seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 May 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 Six Horror Games to Help You Mourn Silent Hills Nightmare Anniversary: 10 Years of “THE DEVIL’S REJECTS” and its Southern Fried Soundtrack Face-Off: Scream 3 Vs Scream 4 Adding Horror to Literary …

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The Cutting Room: The Visit

The Visit A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a week-long trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple are involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day. Why we’re looking forward to this: The Visit is written …

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Tattered Tomes: Tear My Soul Apart – Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart, Revisted

In 1989, I managed to find a rare paperback of Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart (originally published as Night Visions III: Dark Harvest), edited by George R.R. Martin. Having discovered Ramsey Campbell a few years prior, I was hunting collections of his short stories and hit the jackpot with this paperback. The collection featured Campbell, …

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Look Out For… What Gets Left Behind by Mark West and Finding Poe by Leigh M. Lane

Look Out For… What Gets Left Behind by Mark West “The core of this story is as much emotional as horrific, but don’t be fooled: when the horror does come it is brutally effective.”  In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by the Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing. And two boys made a terrifying discovery. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 April 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: Evil Eighties: The Killer Kids of Somebody Come and Play Unfriended and Horror’s Long tradition of Fearing New Tech Baddies in Books: Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft’s Tentacled Terror 10 Great South Korean Horror …

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The Cutting Room: The Enfield Haunting

The Enfield Haunting August 1977. A family living in a council house in the Enfield area of London are subjected to bizarre and terrifying events that bear the hallmarks of poltergeist activity. A rookie paranormal researcher and an experienced but sceptical investigator join forces to get to the bottom of the mystery. Why we’re looking …

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Terror Tots: Wicked Little Things

Time for some more zombie children over here in the Terror Tots (naughty) corner, and as with 1980’s The Children, we’re talking undead kids with a difference. This time, it’s director J.S. Cardone’s 2006 effort, Wicked Little Things – also known as Zombies. Following the death of her husband, grieving Karen Tunney (Lori Heuring) discovers …

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