In this podcast we speak with Shaun Hutson about his latest novel, Monolith, the 80s horror scene, the definition of horror and more. About Shaun Hutson Born and brought up in Hertfordshire, Shaun Hutson now lives and writes in Buckinghamshire where he has lived since 1986. After being expelled from school, he worked at many jobs, including …
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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 Horror World Remembers Christopher Lee In Defence of Horror: 5 Reasons to Scare Your Kids The Wicker Man: The Greatest British Horror Film How An X-Files Script Started a Successful Horror …
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“A somewhat disappointing misfire of poorly judged screenplay, badly timed twists, and missed opportunities.” When freshly graduated doctor, Edward Newgate arrives at the remote, snow bound Stonehearst Asylum on Christmas Eve of 1889 to take up a position working under Dr Salt, he finds that all is not as he expected – Dr Salt has …
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Get ready to meet Meg Reports are circulating that Eli Roth has signed on to direct Meg, the big screen adaptation of Steve Altern’s New York Times bestselling novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. After many false starts it looks like this crazy, massive shark project may finally be sticking its considerable fin above …
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In a post-apocalyptic parallel future of 1997, an orphaned teenager called The Kid scavenges the Wasteland searching for relics from a better time (the 80s). During one of his expeditions he meets Apple, a mysterious girl with a rather large secret. As their relationship deepens, they accidentally run afoul of Zeus, the self-proclaimed leader of …
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Sir Christopher Lee: May 27 1922–June 7 2015. How do you even start to do justice to Christopher Lee? His life, his career, and the scale of his personal and professional achievements are truly humbling. At six feet five inches, he was virtually a giant in physical terms; as an artist he was a literal …
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Horror fiction and heavy metal go together like a fist fuck and five star lube. Many horror fans have a weakness for doom laden power chords and a dark driving beat, and who can blame them given the things they read and watch. Everyone knows that the Dark Lord’s had all the heaviest tunes since …
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Look Out For… Little Girls by Ronald Malfi “Accelerates towards a relentless and twist-filled climax.” From Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi comes a brilliantly chilling novel of childhood revisited, memories resurrected, and fears reborn… When Laurie was a little girl, she was forbidden to enter the room at the top of the stairs. It …
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“There’s certainly potential here.” First things first: this isn’t a movie. Oh, it looks like one and it’s packaged to appear as a new anthology film, but it’s not except in the sense that someone’s pasted all the episodes of the web series Twisted Tales into one longer piece of film. True anthology films have …
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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 Movies Helped Me To Get Over My PTSD Cinematography Tips For Horror Filmmakers Are Women Changing the Face of Television’s Horror Genre? And Then a Cat Jumps Out: In Defense …
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