Scream Queens It opens in a flashback to 1995 at the sorority where something horrible happens. It’s a mystery that goes unsolved. Flash forward 20 years to today, and it looks like someone is out for revenge. Something horrible happened to a pledge and on the anniversary of that crime, someone is out for vengeance. …
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Look Out For… Disintegration by Richard Thomas and Darkest Minds
Look Out For… … Disintegration by Richard Thomas “Disintegration takes the reader on a journey through the dark and grubby side of contemporary Chicago.” In a brilliantly stylish breakthrough thriller for fans of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Will Christopher Baer’s Kiss Me, Judas, here is the compelling tale of a man who has …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 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: The Philosophy of ‘Martyrs’: Transcendence in Torture How To Start Getting Into Horror Part 2: The Basics How Horror Has Influenced Our Daily Lives Is It Still Terrifying?: Poltergeist (1982) The Oral …
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The Cutting Room: Humans
Humans In the near future, the must have accessory for any home is a “Synth”, a robotic servant that is eerily lifelike. However, not everybody is convinced that they are the way forward, and it would appear that their fears are not unfounded. Why we’re looking forward to this: Robots have always been the source …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 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: It Follows and the Science Behind the Creepy-Crawlies Poltergeist: How Tobe Hooper Deconstructed the American Dream & Fueled My Childhood Nightmares 10 Great Found Footage Horror Movies for Beginners How Horror Lit …
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The Cutting Room: IT
IT It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real… They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of …
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Tales from the Word Mine: On Reading
In the course of my job, I read a lot of books. That’s because, essentially, that’s what my job is. As a writer, it’s essential that you read as widely as possible, but it’s also an essential part of being an editor. And here, I’m not just talking about the books you may be working …
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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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