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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Film Review: Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

“Not great, but creepy enough to be effective.” Possession movies are ten a penny these days, with Hollywood churning out exorcism films like pasta. Every so often, one comes along that doesn’t stick to the tried and tested routines and resultantly appears like a fresh piece of fruit in a bowl of decay. Deliver Us …

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (ed. Michael Kelly and Laird Barron)

“The Year’s Best Weird Fiction triumphantly lives up to its title.” The Year’s Best Weird Fiction is a new annual anthology; this inaugural volume contains two introductions, twenty-two stories and runs to 125k words in its attempts to sum up what ‘weird fiction’ is. As interesting as the introductions are, the weird is perhaps better …

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Pre-order The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud and receive FREE bonuses

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud. Cover art by Pye Parr

We cannot wait to unleash The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud into the world and to celebrate we’re offering every single one of our readers that pre-orders directly from This Is Horror a plethora of bonuses that exceed the retail value of the physical book! This is a time sensitive offer as orders must be received by …

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Look Out For… The Hammer of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert and The Black Magic Series by Dennis Wheatley

Look Out For… The Hammer of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert “Promises to be even more gleefully deranged than the first book!” Two years ago, a series of horrific murders shocked the city of Bristol. These were killings so elaborate in their planning, and so outrageous in their execution, that they made national headlines …

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Book Review: The End by Gary McMahon

“The End is further proof that McMahon is approaching the top of his game as a writer.” Gary McMahon’s  latest novel The End is an apocalyptic thriller, which documents a bizarre suicide plague as it strikes London and takes a grip on the nation’s capital. The story centres on Mac Booth and his small group …

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