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Look Out For … House of Windows by John Langan

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Look Out For … House of Windows by John Langan “It’s not often a truly literary haunted house story comes along.” For the last few years, Veronica Croydon has been at the centre of scandal, first as the younger woman for whom her famous professor left his wife, and then as his apparent widow. When …

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Searchlight: A Pictorial History of Horror Movies

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A fan of horror movies since childhood, probably one of my most treasured gifts was a book I received for Christmas when I was ten years old, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford. This book ranks extremely high on the inspiration scale, and with good reason. TV in my household in 1977 …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 Jul 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: Dangerous Visions Sci-Fi Season Coming To Radio 4 Eight Must Read Horror Reference Books Why Dr Sam Loomis Is One Of Horror’s Greatest Heroes Watch Neil Blomkamp’s New Sci-Fi …

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Look Out For … Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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Look Out For … Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero “A very welcome nostalgic and subversive take on the cartoons of our childhoods.” Summer 1977 – The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon’s Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster–another low-life fortune …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 Jun 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: Stephen King And Richard Chizmar Talk Gwendy’s Button Box Resident Evil Original Novels Q&A With Dead By Daylight Creative Director Dave Richard 10 Smart Decisions Made In Horror Movies …

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Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix

Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix “Little has been written about those pulp paperbacks that were an essential horror fix for those of us of a certain age in the days long before Netflix, until now.” SEE the amazing vintage book …

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Searchlight: Mark Korven

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We often think of horror and the weird in visual terms. Often, it is what we see, whether it’s the imagery in our heads, or the images on a screen, that truly creep us out. Yet, horror is an emotion, and emotions are receptive to all our senses. For film, sometimes the creepy comes from …

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Injured Eyeballs 35: To Boldly Go Where No Bloch Has Gone Before

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The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …

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Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne

Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne “Some of the most disturbing examples of horror are those closest to home. The Upstairs Room is another such exercise in terror.” Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy their dream home, a four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in …

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Searchlight: The Art of Dead Space

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past ten years, surely you know of the Dead Space video game series. Along with the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series, Dead Space remains one of the most popular horror video games ever, and with good reason. With healthy nods to classics such as Aliens, …

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