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 New York Times lists its favourite horror movies ahead of this year’s horror-themed Great Performers Issue Broadly shows why horror might just be the best film genre for …
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Look Out For … Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse by H. G. Bells
“With the odd, yet appropriate, moniker H.G. Bells, this book takes another stab at the end-of-the-world scenario, this time using insomnia instead of a zombie virus.” The world record for a human to go sleepless is eleven days. As a new epidemic of insomnia hits the world, everyone begins to wonder when they will …
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Searchlight: Bear McCreary
Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead are sure to know who Bear McCreary is. Right around the 5-minute mark of each episode, when the theme song cranks up, even if you’re not looking at the television, as long as you can hear it, you know…it’s time. McCreary’s theme is one of the most recognizable tracks …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 Dec 2017
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: Paste Magazine have a list of ten horror novels perfect for the holiday season Dread Central chat to indie director Michael Ballif about his anthology short film series The Witching …
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Look Out For … One of Us Will be Dead by Morning by David Moody
“With this new proposed series, now is the perfect time to expand on those harrowing concepts, and Moody is the guy with the chops to do it.” A group trapped on Skek in the middle of the North Sea. Skek used to be a military outpost, a scientific research facility, even a fishing settlement. Now …
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Searchlight: Buried Alive
Though he lived a short but well documented life, the more we discover about Edgar Allan Poe, the more of a mystery he becomes. 168 years later, and we still don’t know the exact circumstances of his untimely death. A new documentary from PBS shines a light on the man and the myths surrounding him. …
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Tattered Tomes: Danse Macabre by Stephen King
When I originally read the first couple of pages of Danse Macabre I remember being a little pissed off. I felt cheated that this new ‘novel’ by Stephen King was actually a nonfiction book about horror. Those feelings certainly didn’t last too long. Maybe for a minute or two. I kept reading it, because even …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 Nov 2017
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: Gizmodo take a post-Black Friday look at five horror movies set in shopping malls Vice examines why some horror movies appear to be thinly veiled Christian propaganda Game of …
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Look Out For … Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
“The Old West, a wicked virus scourging the land, and a young woman setting out across the desert plains to fight for what’s right … it has all the makings of a blockbuster hit everyone is going to be reading.” Ten years after the Civil War and things are still bad in the West Texas …
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Searchlight: Lore
When writing horror, one thing that can make a story really scary is making it believable. For a lot of writers that means scouring the internet, books, historical records and more to find equivalents to the situations we are writing about. I was on just such an information hunt when I stumbled upon Lore, and …
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