Ah, Troma. Most recognised as purveyors of some of the cheapest, most insane guerrilla filmmaking within the genre and home to classics such as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., it’s often surprising to find them behind distribution of the odd serious horror flick. One such film is Max Kalmanowicz’s 1980 nuclear-horror The Children. …
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Look Out For… Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman “Combines childlike wonder with an adult’s understanding that all our stories end finally end with darkness.” In this new volume, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction-stories, verse, and …
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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: Weekly 5: Five Things to Read Before The Scarlet Gospels Horror and the Sad Reality of Gender Discrimination The 15 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time Silent Hills vs The Evil …
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The Smell of Paprika Spectral Press have announced the upcoming release of the first installation of James Everington’s serial The Quarantined City. The Smell of Paprika will soon be available to download as an ebook from Amazon. The story follows Fellows, a man left inside the quarantined city, whose life consists of hunting rare books and trying to …
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So what makes a good ‘monster’ in horror fiction/films? Why does one individual creation strike home with millions of readers/viewers to become a ‘classic’ with the passage of time, while others last only as long as the book’s/film’s length does and immediately plunge into obscurity? What qualities make for a nemesis that lingers on in …
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There are now less than 24 hours left to pre-order The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud. Once pre-orders close you won’t be able to buy The Visible Filth direct from This Is Horror. Former This Is Horror Award winners, Booked. Podcast recently reviewed The Visible Filth in their Interlude episode. Listen to Booked. Podcast review The Visible Filth As was the case with Dread …
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Look Out For… Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer “In a world of dull and derivative trilogies, The Southern Reach stands out.” For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border– an environmental disaster zone, though to …
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In this podcast This Is Horror present an audio recording of ‘Thirteen’ written and narrated by Stephen Graham Jones. ‘Thirteen’ is the opening story in Stephen’s short story collection After The People Lights Have Gone Off published by Dark House Press. About Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen and a half …
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“This isn’t the type of horror you can easily categorize, put inside a box and say, ‘THIS. This is what makes this story scary.’ The Visible Filth is deeply unnerving and you’re not sure why. It has all the requisite thrills and chills, but it’s what’s under the surface that will be your undoing.” Joshua …
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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: Regan’s Not-So-Absent Father: A Personal Tribute to Make-up Legend Dick Smith The Scary Future Of The Hollywood Horror Film Guest Author Ray Garton asks, “Is There No Empathy in Horror?” The Silence …
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