5 Must Read Horror Articles 01 August 2016

Pans Labyrinth

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: 10 Twisted Contemporary Fairy Tales Can You Recognize Horror Movies From A Single Frame? Spielberg’s Duel Reviewed As A Sonnet Jaws And Psycho Reimagined As 80s Video Games Rereading …

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Cover Reveal: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay UK Paperback Release and Giveaway

Paul Tremblay author

Arriving September 27th from Titan Books, Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts releases in paperback and ebook for the UK. Winner of the coveted Bram Stoker Award, A Head Full of Ghosts has been dishing out the scares to readers since it first arrived last year, including Stephen King, who said the book “Scared …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 July 2016

Road Games

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Road Games Gets DVD, VOD and Digital Release Horror thriller Road Games has been set for release on DVD, download and VOD for this August. Featuring a young couple hitchhiking through the French countryside, Road Games sees …

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Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond

cosmic fiction

Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Weird Fiction—Past, Present, and Beyond. The Weird Renaissance. We hear that phrase thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? A renaissance is generally defined as a situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long …

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The Cutting Room – My Father Die

Asher loses both his speech and hearing during an attack that leaves his brother dead. The assassin? Asher’s own father, Ivan, a tattooed monster showing no remorse. Jailed for the assault, but released two decades later due to prison overcrowding, pumped-up Asher wastes no time in seeking the ultimate retribution. Why we’re looking forward to …

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Book Review: Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality; or, Searching for Andy Kaufman by T. Fox Dunham

Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality cover

“What he calls the most important words he’s written may also be some of the most important words you’ll read, a song of mortality and a celebration of life that resonates in the heart and mind long after the final note is played.” The first thing you might think upon reading T Fox Dunham’s groundbreaking …

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Interview: John F. D. Taff on Writing, Horror Fiction, and Why He’s Called the King of Pain

John FD Taff

Though he’s been called an overnight success by some, John F. D. Taff has been writing dark fiction, primarily in the short form, for more than 25 years now, with stories appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies, including  Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Morpheus Tales, Deathrealm, Schrodinger’s Mouse, Night Chills, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, …

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Look Out For … You’ll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker and Darker Battlefields

Look Out For … You’ll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker “Rucker’s fiction shows a mature and highly original understanding of what scares the bejesus out of us.” A woman returns home to revisit an encounter with the numinous; couples take up residence in houses full of sinister secrets; a man fleeing …

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Busting the Mainstream: Portland’s Thriving BizarroCon Community

BizzaroCon Reading

I’m bored, and nobody loves me. That’s not exactly true, because I have a big family, so there’s always something I MUST do. But what can I do for fun? I think, generally, people do want to belong somewhere, to someTHING, and that is part of the reason why church services are often advertised as …

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TIH 103: Aaron Sterns on Screen vs Page, Plotting Stories, and Gothic and Subversive Fiction

TIH 103 Aaron Sterns on Screen vs Page, Plotting Stories, and Gothic and Subversive Fiction

In this podcast Aaron Sterns talks about the difference between writing for the screen and writing fiction, plotting stories and lecturing in Gothic and Subversive Fiction. About Aaron Sterns Aaron Sterns is the co-writer of Wolf Creek 2 (Best Screenplay Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival 2014), and author of the prequel novel Wolf Creek: Origin which has …

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