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Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories and Literary Wonderlands

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Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories “The tales of mummies, sarcophaguses and ancient curses here run the gamut from chilling horror to darkly comic.” ‘As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see that this horror was …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 14 November 2016

5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 November 2016 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: What Happened With George Romero’s Zombies? Ink & Pixel: The Babadook Pinhead Discusses The Hellraiser / Halloween Movie That Almost Was …

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Brutality At Its Finest: Crossing the Line with Violence in Horror

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We all know the scene. The madman on a killing spree, dispatching victims with every weapon they can get their bloody hands on; knives, scalpels, machetes, power-drills, chainsaws, you name it, they’ve got it, and the blood spatters the camera lens and we cringe and hold our hands in front of our faces and as …

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The Cutting Room: Fantasma

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When a beautiful ballerina, Adriana Mena, lands the lead role in the upcoming Nutcracker performance, she’s forced to face her demons as jealousy and tension begin to provoke the supernatural. Why we’re looking forward to this: There’s nothing quite like a good giallo and so Fantasma, written and directed by Brett Mullen and Matt Cloude, …

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American Horror Story: Roanoke, Chapter 8: Blood and OxyContin

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The bloodbath has begun. With just ten episodes total and only three to go, there’s a lot of shit to wrap up. A lot of people who had better show up as ghosts. A lot of people whose skulls are still in need of cleaving (the disclaimer that “everyone died, we found this stuff” has …

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Look Out For … Ruin by Rich Hawkins and What The #@&% Is That?

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Look Out For … Ruin by Rich Hawkins “A typically grim yet engaging apocalypse from the brilliant Rich Hawkins.” These are the dark days, a time of ruin. It began when the black rocks fell to earth, bringing with them a contagion which infected man and beast alike, spreading death and destruction across the land. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 November 2016

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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: What Makes A Horror Villain Interesting Nicolas Winding Refn Talks About The Neon Demon Badass Female Villains Writer Jon Spaihts Talks Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe Horror Movie Villains Body …

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The Cutting Room: The Bye Bye Man

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Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind man’s most unspeakable acts. Why we’re looking forward to this: The devil made me do it is an oft used excuse for perpetrators of evil deeds, but what if something …

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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 7: Happy Late Halloween!

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As I’m typing this, Halloween has not yet plastered me in Karo syrup mixed with food coloring, or glitter, but by the time you read this I should be crying and still trying to wash the sticky, sparkly Halloween goodness out of my hair while praying to the Tooth Fairy that my teeth survived the …

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Look Out For … A Feast of Sorrows by Angela Slatter and The Weight of Words by Dave McKean

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Look Out For … A Feast of Sorrows by Angela Slatter “Slatter takes the raw material of myth and fairy tale and uses it to build her own dark and poignant stories.” Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection features twelve of the award-winning Australian author’s finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new stories to her …

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