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Look Out For … Helena by Claire L. Smith

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“This novella, both historical and relevant to current times, combines the ghostly with the very real horror of a rampant serial killer, just in time for the creepy Halloween season.” Near London in 1855, Helena Morrigan is tormented by poverty and the burdens of her past. A mortician and funeral director, she resides in an …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 September 2020

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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: Tor Nightfire have five horror book recommendations for the end of summer Tim Waggoner writes for Nightmare Magazine on the rational versus the irrational in horror Richard Thomas crystallises …

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Look Out For … Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

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“With his latest novella, Clark takes a page from our darkest history, cranks it up to Hell on Earth, and maintains a great sense of relevancy of the world we live in now.”  It’s 1915. The film The Birth of a Nation has cast its deadly spell over America. The Klan’s ranks swell from the darkest …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 31 August 2020

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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 dig deep into the incomprehensible horror of Dead Space Kealan Patrick Burke talks about writing in the ‘panic room’ for the Night Worms blog Dead Head Reviews …

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Look Out For … The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson

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“With The Loop, Johnson pumps up the crazy, with a pulse-pounding science-gone-mad horror novel only he could envision.” Turner Falls is nestled in the western Oregon hills. It’s the kind of place you want to escape to for a nice vacation. When an unexplainable outbreak occurs, Turner Falls becomes the center of chaos. Several of …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 24 August 2020

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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 have writing advice on writing for you and not just for publication Bloody Disgusting dig deep into Wes Craven’s underappreciated Red Eye at fifteen years old Tor Nightfire pick …

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Look Out For … Standalone by Paul Michael Anderson

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“With Anderson’s Standalone,  he flips the tables with a gory slasher tale while never straying from his roots with the emotional and gut-wrenching horror he’s known for.” Monsters. Killers. Evil. Through derelict hospitals, forgotten schools, broken down houses, and summer camps, they hunt, seeking those foolish enough to visit those places. They leave terror, carnage, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 August 2020

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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 select ten outstanding folk horror novels in this guest post by writer Jo Furniss Bloody Disgusting begin their ‘Phantom Limbs’ series looking at a canned sequel to Hellraiser: …

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Look Out For … Criterium by Tyler Jones

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“With his debut novella, Jones hits the ground running with a gut-wrenching and haunting supernatural tale of grief and addiction.” Zack Ayers is an addict.  He is suffering from the same addiction that killed his father. Grief and dependency make for terrible bedfellows, a downward spiral of despair. Then Zach finds a strange bicycle that …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 10 August 2020

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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: Tor Nightfire hears from Daniel Kraus on the enduring impact of George A. Romero and The Living Dead LitReactor takes a look at the splatter western, a sub-genre which has …

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