Something wicked this way comes… With the recent cinematic release of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, we started to think about the history of witches in genre cinema and decided to take a look back. One thing that is very clear about witches on celluloid is that they seem to fall into two very distinct descriptive …
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Look Out For… The Doll Master & Other Tales Of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates “The tight, controlled prose makes the emerging dread in these stories the more profound.” Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But …
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“There’s an intoxicating narcotic noir tone to Mojo Rising” The great thing about novellas is that they don’t have the luxury of easing the reader into the story, of gently introducing characters and situations before getting down to business. Instead they need to grab the reader by the lapels and pull them right in, and …
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In this podcast Iain Rob Wright talks about his self publishing journey and success, full time writing, editing, working with Infected Books and much more. About Iain Rob Wright Iain Rob Wright is from the English town of Redditch, where he worked for many years as a mobile telephone salesman. After publishing his debut novel, The …
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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: Horror Most Profound: The Many Layers to Alfred Hitchcock’s Classic ‘The Birds’ Fear of the Unknown: Ten Horror Titles That Almost Were! What Modern Horror Filmmakers Can Learn from …
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Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn Fashion Horror The Neon Demon Hits Online The first trailer has launched online for the much anticipated Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) supermodel horror film The Neon Demon, and …
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Guess who’s going to be the life of the party? With the first day of April being the yearly celebration of japes, pranks and general foolhardiness, it’s fitting that we begin our journey of retrospectives on the horror films of yesteryear right here. When the film came out in 1986, it was advertised with a …
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On a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, a plane is shaken by severe weather. When the turbulence subsides, a passenger suddenly dies and a supernatural force is unleashed, overtaking the passengers as they desperately fight to figure out what it is and how to stop it. Why we’re looking forward to this: We’ve seen …
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“Cushing delivers a knockout punch that’ll leave you reeling and that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last word.” Ellie Blake is a closeted lesbian with sadistic leanings, desperate to come out but unwilling to do so in the bible belt community she lives in with her fanatically religious husband. Unfulfilled and …
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I suppose it could be said that I grew up with ghosts and the supernatural, and that the supernatural continues to play a part in my life, being, as I am, a Christian. Often, I’ve seen a reductive view of faith expressed on social media along the lines of – those of faith believe in …
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