Category: Features

5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 March 2021

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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: LitReactor feature this craft article on how game development can inform your writing process The Ginger Nuts of Horror hear from writer Patricia Lillie on childhood fears Kendall Reviews …

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Look Out For … Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories by David Peak

Eyes in the Dust by David Peak - cover

“Together with ‘Eyes in the Dust’ (previously available only as a chapbook), Peak’s latest collection features thirteen dark and strange stories showing the full spectrum of his talents.” The back and forth tug of memory and place. Haunted by trauma, desperately seeking to be seen, and understood. Reflections that shift in black glass. Phantom limbs, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 March 2021

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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: Crimereads ask why we are so obsessed with psychopaths LitReactor explains why atmosphere is so crucial to horror fiction Bloody Disgusting offer up eight movies as a gateway to …

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Look Out For … A Still and Awful Red by Michael Howarth

A Still and Awful Red by Michael Howarth - cover

“With his debut adult novel, Howarth shifts the narrative of the Elizabeth Bathory legend to a seamstress caught in a web of madness, presenting a horrifying tale of survival.” Hungary, 1609. An accomplished seamstress dreaming of more comfortable life is chosen by Countess Bathory to sew a new series of gowns. Maria jumps at the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 March 2021

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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: LitHub provides this long read on how Algernon Blackwood derived sublime horror from nature Bloody Disgusting dig into why classic horror films are still important Kendall Reviews look back …

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Look Out For … The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana and Ryan Harding

The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana and Ryan Harding - cover

“Get to clipping your coupons … with Triana and Harding writing together, this book promises to be a blue-light special straight down the bowels of Hell.” The troubles are just starting for the employees of the Freshway grocery store. Already unhappy about working an overnight shift, the team has to face a siege from their …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 March 2021

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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: Mark Allen Gunnells talks to Horror Oasis about finding his place in horror Kendall Reviews get ten tips on submitting to anthologies from award-winning editor Deborah Sheldon Writer Cynthia …

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Look Out For … Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

“With his latest, Chapman dives into the 1980’s Satanic Panic fears and how those reverberations of past accusations can have horrifying consequences.” For Richard, there is no past, only the present. A new marriage, his son, and living the quiet life as an art teacher in Danvers, Virginia. Then, at the Elementary school where Richard …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 March 2021

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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: Crime reads ask what’s left to write about strange and frightening houses Writer Jennifer Soucy tells Divination Hollow why she writes creepy stuff The Ginger Nuts of Horror feature …

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Look Out For … Near the Bone by Christina Henry

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

“Henry’s latest is the tale of a woman trapped by horrifying psychological and human forces, as well as something deadly and hungry in the woods.” Mattie doesn’t remember how long she’s been living on the mountain with William. She just knows to never make him upset. She realizes they’re not that alone on the mountain …

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