My first experience with Peter Straub’s Mystery was in 1990 when it was released. It was a dark time in my life; grad school was kicking my butt, my life was in shambles, and I needed a job so bad it hurt. When I wasn’t job hunting, I turned to books, and found Mystery sitting …
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Look Out For … Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King “For the first time since 1991’s Needful Things King is taking us home, which in itself is cause for celebration before we even consider the premise of the book which practically screams classic King!” The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange …
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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: Growing Up With Buffy 30 Years Later: A 1987 Theatrical Retrospective Ten Unseen Killer Movies Interview With Konn Lavery Cujo Behind The Scenes Photos Growing Up With Buffy …
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Look Out For … The Broken Hours: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft by Jacqueline Baker “The opportunity to peek beneath the shiny, leathery surface of the great man’s life in the guise of a fictional yarn is irresistible.” In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position …
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If there is one name that pops up lately on the radar when it comes to weird fiction, Victor LaValle’s name is one seen repeatedly. LaValle’s been in the scene for a while, primarily writing hard-to-classify novels that cross the bridge between weird and horror, while maintaining a strong literary aesthetic throughout. Author of The …
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Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. Antarctica …
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Look Out For … Relics by Tim Lebbon “A mirror universe version of the world of Harry Potter if it were steeped in horror and shadow instead of magic and wonder.” There’s an underground black market for arcane things. Akin to the trade in rhino horns or tigers bones, this network traffics in remains of …
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Let’s be clear from the start: Stephen King’s book The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining are two completely different animals. All further understanding and appreciation of either incarnation spawns from that fact. Yes, the source material for the film is the book, but it’s just that: source material that Kubrick used to mold …
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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: WWE Zombies! Horror In The Headlines Abandoned Friday 13th 3D Script Released Domestic Gothic: From Shirley Jackson To Gillian Flynn Seven Found Footage Movies Worth Finding WWE Zombies! …
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Look Out For … Offbeat: Uncollected Stories by Richard Matheson “The opportunity to lose ourselves in anything written by the man responsible for classics like Hell House and I Am Legend is always a treat.” In the aptly titled Offbeat, Richard Matheson, a modern master of strange fiction, offers thirteen excursions into the unsettling and …
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Look Out For … The Cut by C.J. Dotson "A woman on the run from a vicious ex-fiancé; a…
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Look Out For … A Feast of Putrid Delights by… "Troubling insomnia collides with culinary obsession when a young chef experiments…
