Josh Malerman is the author of Bird Box (ECCO/HarperCollins) and the songwriter for the Detroit rock band The High Strung. Ghastle and Yule is his second published story. What first attracted you to horror writing? I was outside, shooting baskets with my brothers and my cousin when my Uncle Bob called me inside and told …
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What was the first soundtrack or composition that you listened to and how did it affect you? Alexis Smith: The first soundtrack album I can remember listening to a lot was a record of The Blues Brothers. However before that I remember recording bits of my Star Wars videotape onto cassette so I could listen …
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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: Five Moments from Licensed Horror Comics You Have to See to Believe On the Masterful Creepiness of Merricat: Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle Slasher Movie Best Cliche Exploits …
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This Is Horror, David Moody and Infected Books have proudly teamed up to produce and record the audiobook of the first ever This Is Horror publication, Joe & Me. Read and narrated by David Moody the audiobook will be released on Tuesday 23 December 2014 at 2PM, GMT. It will be released as a standalone This …
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Tis the season… Amalgam studios have delivered a stocking filler this year in the form of their latest short film Secret Santa. The video, starring Emily Rudd, plays on the longstanding office tradition of Secret Santa, with a nice twist to add a bit of Christmas cheer. Unwrap your Christmas Treat… Ho Ho Ho! Crimson ‘Peek’ …
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“These stories continually amaze and beguile!” Helen Marshall is a Canadian poet and short story writer; Gifts For The One Who Comes After is her second collection of short fiction, after the highly acclaimed Hair Side Flesh Side, both published by ChiZine. Marshall’s work is fantastical and surreal, with similarities to that of writers like …
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“Dark, disturbing and visceral.” After releasing his superb Autumn novel back in 2001 David Moody became known as the premier British zombie writer, which is no bad thing given his innovative and intelligent take on the genre, but as he’s been keen to display in the last few years, there’s much more to Moody than …
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Crimson Peak Set in in the 19th Century, young author Edith Cushing is living together with her charming new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe in a crumbling mansion set within the mountainous, rural region of Cumbria in the north of England, where she soon discovers that he is not quite who he appears to be. Why …
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It’s been a while since my last column, sorry about that – various personal issues and horrors of my own. But here’s a new one, this time looking at ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K Jerome. You can read it here first to avoid spoilers. Jerome is probably best known for his comic novel Three …
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Look Out For… Within The Wind, Beneath The Snow by Ray Cluley “Promises to be something very special indeed.” Gjerta Jørgensen patrols the frozen coastline of Greenland. She is the first woman to do so as part of Slædepatruljen Sirius, an elite dogsled team pushed to the limits of physical survival, risking hunger, exhaustion, frostbite …
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