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Look Out For… Cracked Sky by Ben Eads and The Yellow Wood by Melanie Tem

Look Out For… Cracked Sky by Ben Eads “A compelling story of a family torn apart by events beyond their control.” Reeling from the loss of their only child, Stephen and Shelley Morrison learn that her killer has been found dead. What they don’t know is that his agenda goes far deeper than the grave. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 December 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Five Moments from Licensed Horror Comics You Have to See to Believe On the Masterful Creepiness of Merricat: Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle Slasher Movie Best Cliche Exploits …

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The Cutting Room: Crimson Peak and The Babadook

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak Set in in the 19th Century, young author Edith Cushing is living together with her charming new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe in a crumbling mansion set within the mountainous, rural region of Cumbria in the north of England, where she soon discovers that he is not quite who he appears to be. Why …

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Less is More: ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K. Jerome

It’s been a while since my last column, sorry about that – various personal issues and horrors of my own. But here’s a new one, this time looking at ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K Jerome. You can read it here first to avoid spoilers.  Jerome is probably best known for his comic novel Three …

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Look Out For… Within The Wind, Beneath The Snow by Ray Cluley and Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler

Look Out For… Within The Wind, Beneath The Snow by Ray Cluley “Promises to be something very special indeed.” Gjerta Jørgensen patrols the frozen coastline of Greenland. She is the first woman to do so as part of Slædepatruljen Sirius, an elite dogsled team pushed to the limits of physical survival, risking hunger, exhaustion, frostbite …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 December 2014

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: Gluttons for Punishment: Exploring the Death of the Hellraiser Franchise In Defense Of Holiday Edition: ‘Black Christmas’ (Remake) Zombies Are Over, Tentacles Are the New Meta 25 Best …

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Terror Tots: Home Movie

Christmas is just around the corner, and many a family out there will soon be busting out the camcorder to document their happiness at this special time of year. Years down the line, these captured memories of smiling faces and playful delights will be replayed for nostalgia, mirth and (perhaps) ridicule. But what if that …

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The Cutting Room: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death & Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead

Dead Snow 2

The Woman in Black : Angel of Death Forty years on from the events that saw Arthur Kipps arriving at the Eel Marsh House, school teachers Eve Parkins and Jean Hogg lead a group of evacuee children from war torn London to take up residence in the mysterious old house. It is not long before …

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Look Out For… These Last Embers by Simon Strantzas and The Dark Heart of Peeping Tom

Look Out For… These Last Embers by Simon Strantzas “Consider These Last Embers a must buy.” The inaugural launch of the Undertow Publications chapbook series, These Last Embers takes place in the dark recesses of the human soul, where nothing is more certain than the knowledge that you can never go home again. This sixteen-page …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 December 2014

Welcome once again to Must Read Horror, where we select five noteworthy horror articles in the hope that someone will read them. This week: Alien – Typseset in the Future Mobbed by the 3’s – Halloween III: Season of the Witch If It Takes a Little Digging: A Horror Fanatics Rant about the Good, Bad …

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