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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 Apr 2019

April 29, 2019
3 mins to read

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: The LA Times charts the horror movie’s path to the summit of summer movie releases The Chive asks whether jump scares are really necessary in horror movies Newsweek talks …

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Look Out For … This is Midnight: Stories by Bernard Taylor

April 25, 2019
2 mins to read

Taylor’s horrific short fiction is finally compiled in one volume, making this a must have for all horror fans. A man begins to feel ‘Out of Sorts’ while spending the night with his mistress during a full moon. With ‘Samhain’, black magic is the path for a witch wanting to get rid of her loser …

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe … We Never See the Monster!

April 24, 2019
8 mins to read

Within horror fandom, there seem to be two schools of thought: show the monster or leave it up to imagination. The basic horror formula, three acts that expose the monster/evil near the end of the third act, was the standard for decades. And as long as there’s a payoff, it still works today. It doesn’t …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 Apr 2019

April 22, 2019
4 mins to read

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: Taste of Cinema pick out the ten most original horror movies of the twenty-first century to date The Independent asks whether horror cinema demonises the older woman Barnes & …