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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez

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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez “Her fiction is that pulse-racingly superb, that electric and original.” A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son …

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Voices in the Night: My Favorite Audiobooks of 2016

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As someone who has spent their entire adult life driving through the nights along the freeways and interstates of Southern California, I long ago realized that I would rapidly go insane and murder everyone I came into contact with if I was left with only the Top 40 radio stations or the AM blowhards to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 January 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: The Case For Digitally Resurrecting Horror Actors Actress Joanne Mitchell Answers Ten Scary Questions Interview With Author Amber Fallon Horror Films Made Into Musicals Milla Jovovich Recaps Resident Evil …

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Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Gemma Files

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When it comes to writers that are pushing the envelope of what horror and weird fiction can accomplish, Gemma Files is one name that people mention on a regular basis. Writer, screenwriter, film critic, Files has her fingers in nearly every aspect of the writing life. Two of her scripts were produced for episodes of …

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Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda

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Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda “Think Hellraiser colliding with the Illuminati.” Drawing on decades of experience, author and historian Peter Levenda turns to the novel as the best and perhaps only way to tell a story that has to be told – that hidden within the tales of America’s most …

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The 2017 State of the Horror Address

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Horror lovers thrive on fear. There’s something about the tension, the building suspense, the big reveal of the monster in the final scenes. We crave it, even if we’re reading with all the lights on, or watching the movie from behind our fingers covering our eyes. The stories we read fill our minds with vivid …

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In Memoriam: William Peter Blatty, 1928-2017

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William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, died Thursday evening, January 12th, 2017. He was 89 years old. Though he wasn’t very prolific, his story of a young girl possessed by a demon made a huge impact on readers all over the world. Blatty’s follow up to The Exorcist twelve years later, Legion was later …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 January 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: Andrew Kevin Walker Releases First Draft Of Se7en Bad Decisions made In Horror Movies James DeMonaco Talks About The Purge Series Five Underrated Horror Video Games Jaws 4: The …

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Look Out For … The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown

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Look Out For … The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown “A slow burning Gothic ghost story that twists and turns and is infused with eroticism and psychological insight.” On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by …

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Midnight Mix-Tape: January 2017 – Genre Never Dies

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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. Every year, …

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