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: Let The Right One In Showrunner Discuss The Pilot The Secret Of Long Lasting Horror Fiction Daren Shan Discusses Rebranding Himself Fede Alavrez And Sam Raimi Talk Don’t Breathe …
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News Round-up Week Ending 18 November 2016
New Shining In The Dark Anthology Contains Rare Stephen King Story Cemetery Dance are releasing a limited edition of Shining In The Dark, a brand new anthology of horror stories collated by Hans-Ake Lilja, founder of Stephen King website Lilja’s Library, to celebrate twenty years of running the site. Among the stories, which include a …
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TOD A31 Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward: Midwifing the Other: Nurturing Diversity in Weird and Spec Lit
In this archival podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, creators of the Writing the Other workshop/book. It originally aired on February 17, 2016. The broadcast also includes an exclusive new review of Nisi Shawl’s novel Everfair by author/editor Milton Davis (Dieselfunk, From Here to Timbuktu) and co-founder of the State of Black Science Fiction …
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The Cutting Room: The Passage
When terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being bitten by bats in South America, the government conducts secret tests with human subjects to see if a virus can cure illness. Instead, it unleashes a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires out of the test subjects, which include death row inmates. Why we’re looking forward to this: …
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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Revisited
Sometimes, dead is better, especially when you read Stephen King’s classic novel, Pet Sematary. The book King himself claims is his scariest is really one helluva story, certainly one of his best, and still relevant today. This marks the third time I’ve read this book, and damn if it just keeps getting better every time. …
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Book Review: Blood Moon Big Top by Toneye Eyenot
“A good werewolf story always makes people feel sorry for those afflicted by the transformation, but also sickened and terrified of their actions.” Kendrick the drifter finds his true calling when he joins the circus and becomes Marbles the clown. A chance encounter changes him forever, literally. Slowly his body and mind deteriorates until it leaves …
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TIH 120: Mercedes M. Yardley on Gamut Magazine, Rejections and Fairy Tales
In this podcast Mercedes M. Yardley talks about Gamut Magazine, rejections, fairy tales and much more. About Mercedes M. Yardley Mercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears stilettos and poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Sorrows, the ‘serial killers in love’ novella Apocalyptic Montessa and …
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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 9: Mopping Up
It has been a weird week, to put it mildly. If ever there were a need for good art, or at least good entertainment, now is the time! Not that AHS has ever promised us art–in the entertainment department, though, they can be top of the line, if they’re in the mood. Season 6 has …
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Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories and Literary Wonderlands
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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