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Why I Wrote … The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz

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  Certainly not a new name in the industry, Jonathan Janz has been steadily building his reputation, and bibliography, consistently delivering bone-chilling horror for nearly a decade. Author of The Sorrows, Dust Devils, Savage Species, Children of the Dark, Exorcist Falls, and most recently, The Siren and The Specter and The Dark Game, Janz has …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 July 2019

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Bloody Disgusting pick out possession horror films that do something new with the trope Betty Rocksteady writes a guest post for the Ladies of Horror Fiction on her Creature …

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The Death of Fear: My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (1981) is everything you’d expect and want in a slasher. There’s blood, nudity, a younger generation who don’t take a threat seriously, a transgression, a love triangle, a mask, a weapon, and of course, a (sort of) final girl. So why remake it if it’s everything all little slashers grow up wanting …

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Look Out For … To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin

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“Cardin has forged his own way through the Weird, his work unpredictable and extremely personal.”  Horror, art, and religion intersect in a malicious universe determined to destroy us all. Combining the spiritual and the cosmic, Matt Cardin’s terrifying vision is unleashed. “Let those sorcerers who place a curse on days curse that day, those who …

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