My first column for This is Horror… hmm, what to do? I’m gonna go with ‘Less is More: Short Horror’ with the intention of focussing on short stories in the genre. As a kind of ‘getting to know each other’ piece, this first will look at the form and its suitability for telling dark tales, …
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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: Our Sinister Sisters: The Girl Monster On Screen Santa Showdown: Gremlins Vs. Rare Exports Remembering Michael Jackson’s Thriller – 30 Years Later …
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The following interview/discussion should have taken place in a cosy pub over a few pints, but due to logistics it was conducted over a short period of time via email. The brief was for each of the subjects to interview the other, but in the format of an informal chat rather than a structured interview. …
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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: Santa Showdown: Silent Night, Deadly Night Vs. Black Christmas 5 Reasons the Horror Genre Will Never Die Embrace the Horror: Why PC …
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It’s been one hell of a year for Australia. (Horror) publishing in Australia has been slow and steady, and seems to be focused on Australian authors for an Australian market. Absolutely nothing wrong with this. We need Aussie authors to be published in Australia, and we need them distributed and read in Australia. People like …
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I recently did something that I’ve always dreamt about doing; I rented a little cabin in a forest and hunkered down for a month of uninterrupted writing. As a city girl, I’ve always been attracted to the idea of wilderness and isolation. My favourite stories involve characters on the periphery of the civilised world, in …
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The first call came at about six o’clock last night, just as I was about to start making dinner. It was Ramsey Campbell, who’d never rung me before. He sounded subdued, speaking more slowly than usual. The way people do when something terrible’s happened. He’d called about a piece of news that was already spreading …
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Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: The Best and Worst Survival Horror Games of the Generation Even More Fun Horror Movies That Received Rotten Reviews The 5 Most Embarrassing Horror Sequels The Good, The Bad, and The …
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Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and prolific anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, has edited the magnificent Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome for Jo Fletcher Books. Over the years he’s read literally tens of thousands of stories from writers both old and new, and so we knew we were setting him a …
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When I was seventeen I had a pair of uncommonly disturbing dreams. I typically don’t remember much about my dreams at all, even the stand-out ones. These two dreams remain vivid in my mind, 18 years later. The first dream is very short and feels very cinematic to me. I’m driving a pickup truck in …
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