“If you’re looking for a story that will truly scare the hell out of you and skitter around the inside of your skull long after you’ve read the last word, you’ve found it in The Hatching.” As avid scholars of the dark and disturbing, we frequently call certain horror fiction and movies terrifying or horrifying. …
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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: 5 Unmade Ray Harryhausen Films We Wish Existed 10 Politically Themed Horror Films Neil Marshall Talks Dark Signal Revisiting Cabin in the Woods Evil Dead II Kickstarter Board Game …
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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… King’s Cell To Received UK Premiere At FrightFest The upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling Cell starring John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson is to receive its UK premiere at the London’s annual FrightFest on Thursday 25 …
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Former pinup model Ginny had been cast aside by the heartless and exploitative modelling industry. Ginny didn’t take rejection well and grew into a revenge-seeking, bloodthirsty, broken woman. When her new neighbours Debbie and Sal move in, Debbie begins to notice strange things going on—Sal believes she is mentally unstable, but Debbie becomes determined to …
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The Comforts of the Coffin: Finding Solace in Horror Cinema There’s always something to worry about. If it’s not the political chaos caused by the recent referendum, there’s the fear that an asteroid could wipe out all life on earth, that a superbug will eradicate most of the population, or that the mega volcano under …
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Hitting the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 25th, 2016, director Andrew Schwarz brings his vision of The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones to the screen. This Is Horror published the chapbook of The Elvis Room in March of 2014 to rave reviews, and now fans will get a chance to see the short …
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“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …
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Happy 100th episode to us! In this podcast David Moody talks about the Hater adaptation, brand new Hater trilogy, Wattpad, dealing with depression and much more. About David Moody David Moody grew up on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction. He worked as a bank manager before giving up the day job to …
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Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …
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Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …
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Look Out For … At Dark, I Become Loathsome by… "With LaRocca's latest, he plunges the depths of depravity and…
TIH 597: David Moody on Atheists Writing the… In this podcast, David Moody talks about atheists writing the…
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Look Out For … Strange Stones by Edward Lee… "The visceral abominations of Edward Lee and the literary cosmic…