Film Review: The Babadook (2014)

“This is an absolute must-see for any horror fan!” It is pretty much the same every year – Halloween approaches and the usual swathe of uninspiring cookie cutter dross gets a cinema release and movie goers see them in their droves in lieu of any decent horror films to watch (see Annabelle for this year’s …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 November 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Weird Realism: John Gray on the Moral Universe of HP Lovecraft Why the Horror of Stephen King’s Words Doesn’t Translate Well To …

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Book Review: In The Light by S.P. Miskowski

“The tension and fear is built up with small details, each innocent in itself but together evoking a sense of forces beyond the character’s control.” With her new novella, In The Light, S.P. Miskowski’s brings to a close her Skillute Cycle, one of the most interesting and compelling series of horror stories in recent years. …

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Look Out For… The Last Projector by David James Keaton & A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Last Projector

This week on Look Out For, we caught up with Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Elvis Room, who was kind enough to offer us his opinion on two of the books he is looking forward to in the coming months. Stephen Graham Jones has written fifteen novels, five collections, two novellas, and about two hundred stories …

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Halloween offers now live

As it’s Halloween we’ve decided to treat our readers with an offer on each of our This Is Horror eBook edition releases. Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley Starting 8:00am on 31 October the latest This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley can be picked up for a mere 99p from Amazon UK. On …

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News Round-up Week Ending 31 October

Leytonstone

Lansdale and Serra team up Short, Scary Tales Publications have announced that the pre-order page for Joe R. Lansdale’s, I Tell You It’s Love, is now open. Adapted and illustrated by Daniele Serra, the graphic novel will be available to buy from Monday 24 November, but you can make sure yours arrives just as it hits …

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The Cutting Room: Halloween 3

To celebrate Halloween this week, The Cutting Room gets into the Samhain spirit. Halloween 3 Masked killer Michael Myers stalks and kills a bunch of young people. Probably. Oh, and no Rob Zombie. Yep, that’s really all we know for now, but what more do we really need to know? Why we’re looking forward to …

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Special offers for Halloween – limited time only!

As it’s Halloween week we’ve decided to treat our readers with an offer on each of our This Is Horror eBook edition releases. Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley Starting 8:00am on 31 October the latest This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley can be picked up for a mere 99p from Amazon UK. …

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Meet The Writer Interview: James Master

James Master

James Master is a 28-year-old married man from Northern Indiana with a passion for writing. He is a full-time student working a full-time job while maintaining a writing career. What first attracted you to horror writing? Horror provides the reader an outlet to accept what scares them and deal with their phobias. A writer can …

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A Remembrance of Halloweens Past

Freddy Kreuger

A few years back I won an award for a short story collection. So proud was I of this achievement that I made sure the award was prominently displayed in my downstairs toilet. At about the same time we were having some work done on our cottage. A local builder was taking up the floorboards …

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