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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 November 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. We search the internet for notable horror articles, so you don’t have to. This week: King, Carrie, and a Religious Revelation by Ray Garton Pinocchio’s Dark Horror – and Darker Source Material Mary Shelley’s Other Horror Story – Lessons for Super-Pandemics The Many Faces of The Thing Scary Monsters and …

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The Cutting Room: Backcountry and Burying The Ex

Backcountry Alex (Jeff Roop), a seasoned outdoorsman, persuades his corporate lawyer other half Jenn (Missy Peregrym) to let him take her on a camping trip deep into the Canadian wilderness to one of his favourite spots, the secluded Blackfoot Trail. On the first night of their trip the couple have an unsettling encounter with with …

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Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory

Wakening the Crow

Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory ‘Themes and ideas linger long in the mind.’ Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 10 November 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. We search the internet for notable horror articles, so you don’t have to. This week: Holiday Horrors: “Halloween” vs. “Halloween” An Ode to The Master of Horror 50 Visually Stunning Horror Movies for Twisted Aesthetes Tentacles & Madness: 10 Comics That Continue H.P. Lovecraft’s Horror Legacy Black Country Prophet: Joel …

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The Cutting Room: Into The Dark and The House at the End of Time

Into The Dark Struggling to find her way after the recent death of her parents, Sophia Monet (Mischa Barton) finds that her life is turned around when she meets Adam Hunt (Ryan Eggold), a charismatic man who ignites Sophia’s sense of purpose. However, when Adam mysteriously disappears Sophia and Adam’s roommate Astrid, along with a …

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Look Out For… In The Shadows Of Children by Alan Ryker and The Complete Locke & Key by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez

Look Out For… In The Shadows Of Children by Alan Ryker “A skilful depiction of the past come back to haunt us.” Aaron hasn’t been home since his younger brother mysteriously disappeared without a trace from his bedroom fifteen years earlier. He thought he’d moved on with his life. But when his mother dies suddenly, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 November 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Weird Realism: John Gray on the Moral Universe of HP Lovecraft Why the Horror of Stephen King’s Words Doesn’t Translate Well To …

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Look Out For… The Last Projector by David James Keaton & A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Last Projector

This week on Look Out For, we caught up with Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Elvis Room, who was kind enough to offer us his opinion on two of the books he is looking forward to in the coming months. Stephen Graham Jones has written fifteen novels, five collections, two novellas, and about two hundred stories …

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The Cutting Room: Halloween 3

To celebrate Halloween this week, The Cutting Room gets into the Samhain spirit. Halloween 3 Masked killer Michael Myers stalks and kills a bunch of young people. Probably. Oh, and no Rob Zombie. Yep, that’s really all we know for now, but what more do we really need to know? Why we’re looking forward to …

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A Remembrance of Halloweens Past

Freddy Kreuger

A few years back I won an award for a short story collection. So proud was I of this achievement that I made sure the award was prominently displayed in my downstairs toilet. At about the same time we were having some work done on our cottage. A local builder was taking up the floorboards …

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