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The Cutting Room: The Walking Dead (Season Five)

This week The Cutting Room eyes up a tasty treat coming to your television screens in a couple of weeks. The Walking Dead (Season Five) Former police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) continues to lead his band of survivors through the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. At the end of the previous season they had …

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Look Out For… The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley and The Penguin Book Of Witches

Look Out For … The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley “A slow-burn horror story about childhood and the past, religious faith and miracles.” The Loney is a superb British horror novel in the tradition of The Wicker Man. Exploring issues of faith and the survival of older beliefs, Andrew Michael Hurley’s beautifully atmospheric and moving …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 September 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: How ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Brought the Zombie Comedy Back From the Grave Nightmare Royale #15: A Strange Aeon to be Cthulhu (On Lovecraft, Hatecraft and “You Say …

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The Cutting Room: Tusk and The Houses That October Built

Tusk When podcaster Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) takes a trip up to the north of Canada to interview a mysterious seafarer named Horace Howe (Michael Parks), he is taken hostage by the strange sailor who wants to turn him into a walrus (yes, you read that correctly). In the meantime his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) and …

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Let’s Put An End to This Right Now

I’m going to start this month’s column with a little joke: “A guy walks into a bar with a midget riding a crocodile and a seven foot nun with a ring through her nose. He orders a pint glass full of pickled eggs for the midget, a shot glass full of pork scratchings for the …

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Look Out For… They Do The Same Things Different There by Robert Shearman and A Respite For The Dead by Lucy Taylor

Look Out For… They Do the Same Things Different There: The Best Weird Fantasy of Robert Shearman “Told with a dark wit and in beautifully controlled prose, if you’ve never read any Robert Shearman you’re in for a treat.” Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours—except landlocked …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 September 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. We search the internet for notable horror articles, so you don’t have to. This week: Summer of Sleaze: Guy Smith’s The Sucking Pit and The Walking Dead Horror: Does Cinema Have the Edge Over TV? The Books Behind Today’s TV Horror Resurgence Tales from the Video Store: The Babysitter Diaries …

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The Cutting Room: Overlook Hotel

In the Cutting Room this week, we’re going to take a look at an upcoming film that might just shine. Overlook Hotel The tragic events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when alcoholic caretaker Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy and his supernaturally gifted son Danny checked in for the winter are well known, but they …

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Look Out For… Consumed by David Cronenberg and Gifts For The One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

Look Out For … Consumed by David Cronenberg “Promises murder, philosophy, strange diseases and an incredible variety of sex.” The debut novel by the iconic film director. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 September 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: Summer of Sleaze: The Manitou by Graham Masterton Graham Joyce (1954-2014) The Horror Genius of Guillermo del Toro What Women In 70s Slasher Films Tell Us About Women …

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