The Cutting Room – Bates Motel (Season 4)

Years before Marion Crane made the unwise decision to spend the night at the Bates Motel, young Norman and his mother Norma (still very much alive at this point) were already getting up to all kinds of adventures. Why we’re looking forward to this: About to kick off its fourth season, Bates Motel has been …

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Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle and Noctuidae by Scott Nicolay

Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle “Scary, unpredictable and wonderfully evocative of the grimier side of the Jazz Age.” People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his …

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TIH 083: Damien Angelica Walters on Paper Tigers, 100,000 Words in 30 Days and Dealing With Criticism

TIH 083 Damien Angelica Walters on Paper Tigers, 100,000 Words in 30 Days and Dealing With Criticism

In this podcast Damien Angelica Walters talks about her new novel Paper Tigers, writing 100,000 words in 30 days, responding to criticism and much more. About Damien Angelica Walters Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Paper Tigers (Dark House Press, 2016) and Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Publications, 2015). Her short fiction has been reprinted in …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 March 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: Thomas Ligotti’s Uncanny Horror and the Future of Holocaust Fiction The Pathetic Fallacy Made Flesh: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” Love For The Craft: The Weird Tales Of W.H. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 4 March 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Stephen King Confirms The Dark Tower Movie In Production and Names Stars Stephen King has confirmed via Twitter that his long gestating The Dark Tower movie adaptation is now in production. Not only that, the writer …

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Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen and The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …

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TIH 082: Rebecca Jones-Howe on Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities

TIH 082- Rebecca Jones-Howe on Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities

In this podcast Rebecca Jones-Howe talks about Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities. About Rebecca Jones-Howe Rebecca went to college with the intention of getting a degree in Journalism, however, she dropped out in her second year when her Creative Writing class became the only one she ever went to. Since then, she found a group of …

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Voluntarily Committed: My Stay in a Haunted Asylum – Part Three

Day Two A day in a dusty Asylum is much better when started with a shower.  Even though I used the other shower this time, in a completely different room, I still had that uneasy feeling of company when no one else was there. It was a very quick shower. Croissants again for brekkie and …

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News Round-up Week Ending 26 February 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Stephen King’s The Mist Set To Become TV Series Dimension Television — who has recently found success with their TV version of the Scream franchise — has announced that they plan to develop the Stephen King …

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This Is Horror Awards 2015: The Winners

Hannibal Season 3 This Is Horror Award

Thank you to everyone who voted and to all the amazing creators for creating. 2015 was a phenomenal year for horror. Here are the winners of the This Is Horror Awards 2015. Novel of the Year Winner: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Runner-up: Lost Girl by Adam Nevill Thank you to everyone involved with THIS …

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