This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …
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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!” When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …
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Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …
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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: Bugging Out: Five of the Greatest Killer Bug Flicks From Carrie to The Shining: A History of Stephen King Film Adaptations Toys of Terror #11 The Origins of …
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Look Out For… Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital by Mark Morris ” In an overcrowded field, Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital really does look like that rarest of finds: a zombie novel that’s different.” London is in turmoil following riots and the Trafalgar Square Massacre. A doctor in a big East End hospital, already hard hit by …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Home Invasion Films Get Us Where We Live Preserving the Sound and Music of Horror Films The Importance of the Horror Genre and Why We Love It Oculus: The Unseen Evil in …
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Look Out For… Shadows & Tall Trees 6 ” A manifesto for horror in the short story form.“ Shadows & Tall Trees is the flagship publication of Undertow Publications, a small press based near Toronto. In 2010 and 2013 the journal was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for Best Periodical/Magazine. Featuring notable visionaries including Robert …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Why Horror is Good for You (and Even Better for Your Kids) Movies Don’t Create Psychos: A Scream Retrospective Dissecting Clive Barker! A Short History of Found-Footage Horror Horror Movies for Beginners: …
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