“Blood Standard is crime fiction, with a capital C, and hits all the notes one would expect from the genre, with a compelling main character we can’t stop reading about.” Hitman Isaiah Coleridge retired early. He screwed up bad, made a huge mess of things, and angered a whole of bunch of people that can …
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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Latest in pastiche Sherlock Holmes series from Edge Publishing, Gaslight Gothic, available for pre-order tomorrow This anthology of shorts in the gothic vein, featuring the world’s greatest detective, includes stories by Stephen Volk, David Stuart Davies, Lyndsay …
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“The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield promises to combine thrilling international intrigue with the occult during the height of the Cold War in ways we’ve never seen before.” The Cold War, 1963. A botched assassination of a traitor forces British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter to escape London. With a mysterious woman named Karina …
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In this remastered and re-edited This Is Horror Podcast conversation Jennifer Lynch talks about Chained, Vincent D’Onofrio, broken humans, and much more. The original podcast aired on 4 February 2013. About Jennifer Lynch Jennifer Chambers Lynch is an American film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch. She is also known …
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Spend any amount of time studying the craft of writing and you’ll come to realize that there are too many “rules”, and a lot of the time, these rules conflict and contradict each other. There are some standards that have withstood the test of time, such as “read, read, read”, but that seems more like …
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In this podcast Paul Michael Anderson talks about Bones are Made to be Broken, Harlan Ellison, Short Story Notes, and much more. About Paul Michael Anderson Paul Michael Anderson is the writer of Bones are made to be Broken and numerous short stories and articles. He lives with his wife and daughter in Virginia. Find …
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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: BBC Culture feature an article about horror as perhaps the most disrespected genre Blood Disgusting have lined up eight beach horror movies to make you think twice about that …
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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … PS Publishing announce Walking With Ghosts, a collection of thirty stories, by Brian James Freeman Coming this August is a collection of thirty stories, divided into four parts, by Brian James Freeman. The collection comes in a …
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“With some stories never collected before, and a few originals thrown in the mix, Bentley Little’s first collection in over a decade is destined to be another classic of the genre.” Sticky Notes. Hotel maids. Small town rodeos. Snowmen. At times, all of these things can be innocent, completely safe. But in the hands …
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“A novel full of action, full of human emotion and relationships, Toroa … is a view into the soul of one who is pushed until breaking and the darkness that can spill out as a result.” Even a brief look at the synopsis for Toroa leaves the reader thinking that suspending one’s disbelief is going …
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Look Out For … At Dark, I Become Loathsome by… "With LaRocca's latest, he plunges the depths of depravity and…
News Round-up Week Ending 17 January 2025 Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news…
TIH 597: David Moody on Atheists Writing the… In this podcast, David Moody talks about atheists writing the…
Look Out For … Strange Stones by Edward Lee… "The visceral abominations of Edward Lee and the literary cosmic…
5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 January 2024 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet…