5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 July 2015

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: The H Word: The Politics of Horror How Do Horror Video Games Work, and Why Do People Play Them? The Evolution of the Slasher Film ‘Day Of The Dead’: George Romero’s Gruesome …

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News Round-up Week Ending 10 July

Locke and Key

World Fantasy Awards 2015 The 2015 World Fantasy Awards will be handed out at the World Fantasy Convention in November, this week saw the short-lists announced for all categories. Nominees include Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Ellen Datlow’s Fearful Symmetries and Michael Kelly’s Shadows & Tall Trees. The full list of nominees is available from …

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The Cutting Room: Into The Grizzly Maze

After a relentless grizzly starts to wreak havoc on a small town, the sheriff heads into the forest to find his ecologist wife but instead crosses paths with his estranged, ex-con brother. They soon find themselves on the run from the massive grizzly bear. The hunted become the hunter in this edge-of-your seat thriller about …

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Film Review: GirlHouse (2014)

“Whilst very much a back-to-basics slasher effort, GirlHouse proves itself to be a consistently entertaining ride” In order to make enough extra cash to see her through her university studies, student Kylie signs up to be the latest addition to the roster of online fap-fest “GirlHouse”. The site itself is a members only voyage of …

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Look Out For… Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand and Sunny, With A Chance Of Zombies

Look Out For… Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand “Hand turns her formidable talents as a horror writer to the classic haunted house story” From the award-winning author of Waking The Moon, a short novel of unexpected terror When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique …

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TIH 049: In The Year of Omens Written and Narrated by Helen Marshall

In this podcast Helen Marshall reads her short story ‘In The Year of Omens’. About Helen Marshall Helen Marshall is a critically acclaimed Canadian author, editor and medievalist. Her debut collection of short stories, Hair Side, Flesh Side won the 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. Her second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 July 2015

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: How Horror Games Give Us the Fright We’re Looking For Cannibalism and Other Nightmarish Things: Sleeping Beauty Looking Back at M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening The Essential Guide to Streaming Stephen King …

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News Round-up Week Ending 3 July

The Grieving Stones

FrightFest line-up announced The line-up for this year’s Film4 FrightFest has been announced. The festival has unleashed a massive array of films for the viewing pleasure of its rabid audience. The festival covers horror in all forms from foreign language films to remastered classics and the festival always pays homage to its British heritage with …

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Book Review: Finders Keepers by Stephen King

“He not only hits a home run with this but knocks it clean out of the park.” There’s a good chance if you’re one of the many millions of Stephen King fans around the world that you feel a form of literary addiction, in that you absolutely cannot get enough from Maine’s Master of the …

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The Cutting Room: Creeper

Heather and her friends have some devilish fun on the social website, ConnectMeNet. However, their amusement has come at the expense of a lonely and medicated half-wit, Jerry Tobin. After goading him into humiliating himself on camera in various cruel acts of depravity, they post the clips online for the world to see in a …

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