Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas “The Last Weekend is a typically riotous and inventive mix of the undead, dystopian fiction and paranoid conspiracy.” Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt refugee, failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished “driller” of reanimated corpses. …
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Angus Scrimm 1926 – 2016 Lawrence Rory Guy, also known as Angus Scrimm, and best known for this work in the cult classic Phantasm films by Don Coscarelli, passed away January 9, 2016. He was 89 years old, and still very active in the film and horror communities. Born in Kansas in 1926, the American …
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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. This week: The Geopolitics of Horror: Natalie Dormer and The Forest The Martyrdom of “HALLOWEEN RETURNS”: Why Dimension’s Loss is Michael Myers’ Gain Waxwork Records Underline Resurgence in Horror Comics Celebrating 21st Century Horror: …
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Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… TNT To Revive Tales From The Crypt With M. Night Shyamalan Great news for fans of the classic HBO anthology series Tales From The Crypt as TNT in the USA have announced that they are looking …
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An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare… With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to …
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It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2015 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2015’. To cast a vote simply write the category and your vote for each award. You may vote for your top two in each category. For example: Award 1. First choice …
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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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Look Out For … Strange Stones by Edward Lee… "The visceral abominations of Edward Lee and the literary cosmic…
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