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Look Out For… Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn and The Blondes by Emily Schultz

Look Out For… Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn “A Russian Doll of a novel, each layer of the narrative revealing something even more harrowing beneath.”  With his marriage on the rocks and his life in shambles, washed up crime writer Lucas Graham is desperate for a comeback. So when he’s promised exclusive access to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 April 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: The Eeriness of the English Countryside The Impact of It Follows: What Makes a Good Horror Film? Five Books About Backwoods Horror The Birth of the Vampyre: Dracula …

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Tattered Tomes: Spreading the Disease

The Horror Bug hit me at an early age. My first infection came when my Mom came home from the store with some comic books. Typical superhero stuff, but I just couldn’t put down Marvel’s Man-Thing. The combination of lurid, nightmarish artwork and pulse-pounding characters and story drove me into a fever. The Horror Bug …

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The Cutting Room: The Funhouse Massacre

The Funhouse Massacre Six of the world’s scariest psychopaths escape from a local asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween funhouse, whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror. Why we’re looking forward to this: Two words. Robert Englund. Though Elm Street is a long way …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 April 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: A Short History of Bigfoot in the Movies Returning to The Long Walk by Ed Gorman The Doors to Horror The Test of Time: The Dead Zone (1983) …

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The Cutting Room: Shed of the Dead

Shed of the Dead A group of folk find themselves in the middle of an urban zombie apocalypse, and come together in the titular shed for a spot of horror comedy. Why we’re looking forward to this: Okay, the synopsis may not sound like the most exciting thing that you’ve read all day, and the …

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Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon and Dark Detectives

Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon “The creatures in The Silence are bound to fascinate and terrify in equal measure.”  In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed… Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 April 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: Evil Eighties: The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell Strange Tales: An Appreciation of Rick Baker Seeing isn’t Always Believing: Why Horror Podcasts are Going Viral Gene …

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Terror Tots: Bloody Birthday

On this installment of Terror Tots – the series in which we take a look at some of filmdom’s most obscure and disturbing killer kids – we’re opening the case for Ed Hunt’s 1981 shocker Bloody Birthday. In 1970, three children are simultaneously born to different mothers, under the ominous shade of a solar eclipse. Fast forward …

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Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones and Strange Tales V

Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones “A collection of interlinked short stories set in the mysterious town of Longcroft, these are strange and compelling tales.” Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones, publisher and editor at award-nominated Spectral Press, is a series of connected short fiction stories, semi-autobiographical in nature, set in the imaginary town …

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