5 Must Read Horror Articles 12 January 2015

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Sci-Fi Artists: HR Giger’s Art Lives in Another Reality A Bloody Complicated Relationship With Horror Soundtracks: To Reissue or to Let ‘Em Rot Cannibalism and HP Lovecraft Top …

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News Round-up Week Ending 9 January

Probably Monsters

FantasyCon 2015 announces Guests of Honour FantasyCon 2015, which is being held this year at East Midlands Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel from 23 to 25 October, have now announced two of their guests of honour. This year’s convention, run by the British Fantasy Society, will host best-selling author and journalist, John Connolly and genre …

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The Cutting Room: Friday The 13th

Friday The 13th Jason Vorhees returns to terrorise more young adults who have had the misfortune to rock up to Camp Crystal Lake (or whatever it’s called these days). Expect running, screaming and teens being despatched in an ever increasing variety of ways. Why we’re looking forward to this: Stop anybody in the street and …

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This Is Horror Awards 2014: Vote now!

It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2014 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2014 Votes’. 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. …

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TIH 025: Richard Thomas on The Do’s and Don’ts of Short Story Writing

In this podcast Richard Thomas talks about horror writing in Transylvania, sending our horror fiction and what you should and shouldn’t do when writing short stories.  About Richard Thomas Richard Thomas is the author of six books—Disintegration and The Breaker (Random House Alibi), Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications), and two short story collections, Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken …

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Look Out For… Blockbuster by Lisa Von Biela and Trigger Warnings by Brian Keene

Look Out For… Blockbuster by Lisa Von Biela “A fast-paced thriller where the horror comes from human greed and corruption.” In the year 2025, survival of the fittest takes on new importance. Hungry for market share and driven by greed, BigPharma companies battle to produce the next blockbuster drug. And they will go to any …

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Richard Thomas praises The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud

“By witnessing, we become complicit. In Nathan Ballingrud’s unsettling and captivating novella, The Visible Filth, a simple act, a bit of curiosity, turns into something much darker—a poison that seeps into our flesh, unable to look away, a plague brought forth, the page becoming our undoing.” Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration You can pre-order The …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 5 January 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: Getting It On by Bev Vincent The Best (and Worst) Horror Flicks of 2014 The Benefits of Transition Horror In Defense of ‘Resident Evil’ (2002) Doctor Abrams’ House of Cinematic Sociopolitical Horrors: …

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 January

Woman In Black 2

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death From British horror empire Hammer Film Productions, comes The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. The film, released on New Year’s Day, tells the story of a group of World War II evacuees staying in Eel Marsh House. Little by little the strange behaviour of the …

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The Cutting Room: Terror Tales and Krampus

Tales of Terror As well as directing many feature length movies based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman also created several shorts based on the stories of the gothic author too. Collected here are three of those shorts, all starring Corman collaborator Vincent Price. In The Black Cat Price stars with Peter …

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