Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Graham Masterton’s classic political horror The Hell Candidate to be brought back into print by Telos Publishing Graham Masterton’s 1982 political horror, written to coincide with the Reagan presidency is being revived and re-released by Telos …
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“Collaborating for the first time with his son Billy Chizmar, any new release from this author is a must-have.” Some of the residents of Harper’s Cove believe the Widow’s Point Lighthouse is cursed. Some think it’s haunted. For over 150 years, over two dozen people have died around the lighthouse. Their deaths remain unexplained. …
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A recent conversation on social media prompted a close examination of the direct relationship between horror fiction and science-fiction. Not that this hasn’t been examined before, in much greater detail, by others taking a more scholarly approach. The simple statement is that yes, the two genres are more closely related than suggested by whatever Venn …
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One of my favorite places in all the world when I was growing up was the local Walden Books. This is back when horror was actually a separate genre, shelved apart from science-fiction and not lumped together with general fiction. Once a month I’d go there and search through the titles, looking for anything new …
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In this podcast Laird Barron talks about his forthcoming novel Blood Standard, the connection between horror and crime fiction, violence in horror, and much more. Original photo credit: Henry Stampfel About Laird Barron Laird Barron, an ex-pat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron …
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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: iO9 have a trailer and short feature article, ahead of the Netflix release of The Ritual, in mid-February The New York Times explore the truth behind the new horror movie, Winchester, …
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“A brave anthology which does away with binary concepts of gender, love and sex, instead presenting the reader with love that is realistic, heartfelt, though at times, naturally, stepping into the fantastical.” Hardened Hearts begins with a foreward by James Newman (Animosity, Ugly as Sin) where he describes love, with assistance from a number of …
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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Thomas Ligotti’s The Bungalow House available for pre-order on limited edtion LP Read by Jon Padgett (The Secret of Ventriloquism), Thomas Ligotti’s story, The Bungalow House, is chillingly brought to life on a new limited edition LP. The …
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In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Gwendolyn Kiste, author of And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe and Pretty Marys All in a Row. The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird is a unique immersive one-day event featuring approximately 12 hours of panels, readings, signings and social activities centered around contemporary Weird and speculative fiction. The …
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Horror lost one of the greats yesterday. Dallas Mayr, more commonly known as Jack Ketchum, passed away 24 January 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Author of several novels including Off Season, Red, The Girl Next Door, Offspring, and the short-story collection Peaceable Kingdom, Ketchum’s work has been adapted for the screen and …
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