Rise of the House of Dread An Appreciation of the Showtime Original Series Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful is the Saturday Creature Feature television series you didn’t even know you were craving. Combining the tales of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman and Dorian Grey, Showtime and Sky hid out in their laboratory and cobbled together this shiny …
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“The House On Pine Street is a purposeful, slow burning film that has all the potential ingredients to be a taut, psychological/supernatural thriller…” Brothers Aaron and Austin Keeling’s sophomore feature is a psychological drama dressed up in supernatural clothes. It centres on the post-emotional breakdown mother to be – Jennifer (Emily Goss – An Emotional Affair). She’s reluctantly left …
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Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison “Ellison’s stories provide a skewed and indignant view on our own world and its foibles.” Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see ’em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he’s gone. Ellison’s a double agent who …
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“Dark, funny, and a little out of the ordinary, you really can’t go wrong with Adam Howe’s collection.” A burned out boxer turned bouncer; an aspiring porn starlet with a heart of gold; a mythical creature that’s the mascot of a dangerous biker gang; a relentless killer squaring off against two dangerous brothers; a man …
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In this podcast Simon Strantzas talks about the distinction between weird and strange fiction, his writing routine, the new journal Thinking Horror, his current works-in-progress and much more. About Simon Strantzas Simon Strantzas is the author of Burnt Black Suns (Hippocampus Press, 2014), Nightingale Songs (Dark Regions Press, 2011), Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, 2009), and …
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“Unquestionably one of the best supernatural chillers of its time.” Don travels back to his hometown in New England for the funeral his brother David, after he dies under strange circumstances on the day before his wedding to the ethereal Alma Mobley – a woman who Don himself had once loved. Arriving there he meets …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror, and a whole new year of great articles hand-picked for your reading pleasure from the internet. Unsurprisingly, ‘best-of 2015’ lists are ubiquitous this week, but not here as, frankly, we’ve had enough of them. This week: Fangoria’s Petrifying Predictions for Horror in 2016! We All See Dead People: Horror’s Postmodern …
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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 Forest Set To Hit UK Cinemas in February. The Forest is set to get an UK Cinema in February 2016. This supernatural thriller is set in the legendary Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. …
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“Readers are advised to get this book in their hands as soon as possible, as this may well be the best neo-noir of the year.” Ray Nelson punches his demons in the ring, taking in all the pain that comes his way. Underground fight clubs where the stakes are high and death on mat comes …
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Look Out For… Halfway Down The Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck “Halfway Down The Stairs is a welcome and comprehensive retrospective of the short stories of Gary A. Braunbeck.” Climb halfway down the stairs with Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Gary A. Braunbeck, into worlds that occupy the spaces between “here” and “there,” where office workers …
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TIH 583: Jason Pargin on I’m Starting to Worry… In this podcast, Jason Pargin talks about I'm Starting to…
Look Out For … Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram "With this debut novella, Ajram delves into shadowy liminal spaces,…
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