Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum sits crouched like a spider atop the hills overlooking Beechworth, a historic mining town in country Victoria, Australia. In 128 years of operation, there have been over 9,000 recorded deaths, and likely many more than that, if the truth be known. My wife and I were offered purchase of the central …
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This past February I started a Kickstarter to raise $52,000 in order to launch a new online magazine of neo-noir, speculative fiction with a literary bent called Gamut. It was a crazy rollercoaster ride of a month and I definitely learned a few things. Here is some of that insight. I had no idea how …
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“Fans of Sammy’s work will find much to enjoy, here – as will any who appreciate the finer side of dark/genre art and illustration.” Hailing from South Africa, freelance illustrator Vincent Sammy is rapidly becoming the go-to guy for all things dark, apocalyptic, challenging and evocative. With this collection, The Damage Museum, Sammy’s work for …
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In this podcast Vincenzo Bilof talks about the effect of satire, George R. R. Martin, The Violators, the HWA and much more. About Vincenzo Bilof From Detroit, Michigan, Vincenzo Bilof has been called ‘The Metallica of Poetry’ and ‘The Shakespeare of Gore’. With a body of work that includes gritty, apocalyptic horror (The Zombie Ascension Series), …
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“Scott Nicolay’s The Croaker is another stunning reason why he is quickly becoming one of the strongest new voices in Weird and Cosmic Horror.” Haunted by painful memories, Michael meets with his first crush nearly thirty years after strange events changed him forever. Something happened when he and Donna visited the Tommy Croaker Memorial Park …
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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: The Shape of Horror to Come Australia’s Dark Heart Inspires Horror Movie Boom The Strange but True Case of the Mummified B-Movie Horror Star Stephen King: What we Can’t …
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Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… The Walking Dead Season Finale ‘Last Day on Earth’ Airs April 3 As the 6th season of AMC’s The Walking Dead comes to a close this Sunday, April 3, viewers are preparing for another summer long …
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“…the reader/listener not only gets a genuine sense of threat but also of man’s smallness in the grand scheme of things.” The Revenant is a slightly odd book which most people will know as the source material for the recent multi-Oscar winning movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s odd because it’s an ostensibly true tale written …
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A bloody hilarious spoof (apparently) that follows a group of young adults who head to a remote cabin for a winter weekend. But soon they are confronted a half man, half creature who is compelled to stick his, ahem, dangerously large penis into anything that resembles female genitals. Naked women (and men) are forced to …
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In this podcast Vincenzo Bilof talks about his first memories and passions outside of writing, movies and remakes, first experiences writing and his new novel, The Violators. About Vincenzo Bilof From Detroit, Michigan, Vincenzo Bilof has been called ‘The Metallica of Poetry’ and ‘The Shakespeare of Gore’. With a body of work that includes gritty, apocalyptic horror …
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