News Round-up Week Ending 9 September 2016

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Grimmfest Announce Full Line-Up Manchester’s annual scare festival, Grimmfest, is right around the corner and the full line up for the weekend has now been announced. Running from October 6 to 9 at the Odeon Printworks, …

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Book Review: Tales From The Lake Vol. 3 edited by Monique Snyman

Tales from the Lake, Vol 3 - cover

“A great addition to the Tales From The Lake series and the impressive back catalogue of one of the most well-respected publishers in the field.” The most recent release from Crystal Lake Publishing is the latest instalment in their anthology series, Tales From The Lake, and is the first in which head honcho Joe Mynhardt …

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The Cutting Room: The Nth Ward

The Nth Ward

The Nth Ward is a chilling suspense thriller about a woman haunted by the childhood disappearance of her parents.  Madison, now an engineer with the US Army Corps, and Kitch, a local contractor, are two conflicting personalities paired in a government program to assess the ongoing devastation of the Ninth Ward from the hurricane that …

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American Horror Story: The Land of Yes—Retrospective and Recommendation

American Horror Story - Season 6 - cover

Fan or not, American Horror Story is the kind of show that cannot be judged on the regular merits of television programming—or storytelling, for that matter. One can’t outline plot points and arcs, or argue conventional strengths and weaknesses. It isn’t built that way. As an anthology show, there is no quality or tone guarantee …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s It Revisited

Stephen King IT

As college and girls consumed my life right out of high school, my reading slowed down tremendously. With the exception of my British Lit class and my composition class thesis contrasting and comparing Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot, there wasn’t much fiction reading in my life. It came out in 1986 when …

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TIH 109: Writers’ Craft Talk: Best Writing Advice with 20 Writers

In this podcast twenty writers discuss the best writing advice they’ve received. Contributions from Stephen Graham Jones, Mercedes M. Yardley, Helen Marshall, Paul Tremblay, George Ttoouli, Nina Allan, David Moody, Jessica McHugh, John F.D. Taff, John C. Foster, David Bowles, Lisa L. Hannett, Bob Pastorella, Josh Malerman, Richard Thomas, Vincenzo Bilof, Jasper Bark, Sarah Langan, S. …

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Look Out For … Chills by Mary SanGiovanni and Ghost Highway

Look Out For … Chills by Mary SanGiovanni “The claustrophobic setting creates an atmosphere of mounting and nightmarish tension.” True Detective meets H.P. Lovecraft in this chilling novel of murder, mystery, and  slow-mounting dread from acclaimed author Mary SanGiovanni… It begins with a freak snowstorm in May. Hit hardest is the rural town of Colby, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 5 September 2016

Blair Witch 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: Fans Uncover Blair Witch Viral Marketing Site Michael Cudlitz Talks About Season Six Of The Walking Dead Dean Cundy Reveals The Thing Secret Ten Real Life Home Invasions Gene …

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 September 2016

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer Restored And Re-released John McNaughton’s classic and disturbing film about real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas is, incredibly, thirty years old this year and getting a long awaited 4K restoration …

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Book Review: Scavengers by Rich Hawkins

Scavengers by Rich Hawkins cover

  “If you like fast-paced, action-packed horror in a compact and easy-to-read novella that will keep you hooked until the very last page, consider checking out this book.”   Rich Hawkins burst onto the horror fiction scene with his debut novel, the British Fantasy Award nominated The Last Plague, in August 2014. In the two …

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