5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 November 2013

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: A Two Coreys Halloween: The Essential Horror Movies of Haim and Feldman Everyone Has a Skeleton in Their Closet: 15 Oscar-Nominated Actors in Television Horror Anthologies Revolt of …

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This Is Horror Awards 2013 – Public Nominations Are Open

After two successful years the This Is Horror Awards are back! The first stage of the This Is Horror Awards 2013 begins now. Readers can e-mail in their nominations for each of the fifteen Award categories. Taking into consideration the nominations for each category This Is Horror will then draw up a shortlist. The nominations …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 November

SKU

Autumn line-up expands Autumn: Horror in the East 2 horror festival has announced another special guest. Lesley Manning, director of Ghostwatch, will be in attendance and taking part in a special Q&A after the show itself is screened. Free tickets to this exclusive screening are available now from the Autumn website but move quickly, they …

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Creepshow

Happy Birthday Creepshow

Growing up on the outskirts of a small Northern shipyard town in the 1980s I didn’t get much opportunity to read the sort of gruesome, blood-soaked comics for which my dark heart longed. My father never threw my horror comics in the trash because I didn’t have any. In fact given the proclivity of my …

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Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey, Free For Halloween

Roadkill by Joseph D'Lacey

Our Halloween gift to you is a special promotion on our chapbook, Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey. For three days only we will be offering it absolutely free from Amazon. The only thing we ask of you is that if you happened to enjoy it do please leave us a review. Hell, even if you don’t enjoy it …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 October 2013

Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Carrie Face-Off: Remake Vs. Original 11 Horror Movies That Are Scary Because of What They Say About Humanity Why John Carpenter is the Most Underrated Filmmaker of Our Time Phantasmagorical Ponderings: …

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Interview: Wayne Simmons talks Scardiff 2013

Bobby Rhodes

We caught up with the most decorated man in horror fiction, Wayne Simmons, to talk about the forthcoming Scardiff. For more information please visit the Scardiff 2013 website.  What is Scardiff festival and how is it different to other conventions? Scardiff is Cardiff’s first horror expo; a one day fan con, taking place at the Mercure …

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Film Review: Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2013)

Bring Me The Head of the Machine Gun Woman

   “Trashy – delivered in style and buckets of bullets!” Essentially, you could sum this up with the tag-line “Grindhouse meets Grand Theft Auto”. Che, played by Jorge Alis, is a Chilean gangster feared by all – except that is, the machine gun woman, the unbelievably sexy Fernanda Urrejola who is out to kill him …

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News Round-up Week Ending 25 October

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Horror reading in Birmingham This Is Horror event host Jasper Bark will be present at a horror reading in Birmingham at Halloween. The event will also feature readings from Dave Jeffery and Adrian Middleton. The event will run from 7pm until late at The Pat Kavanaugh, Moseley, Birmingham. Tickets are £3 and are available from …

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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: 100 Bloody Acres

100 Bloody Acres

“It’s so bizarre it actually works!” Reg and Lindsay Morgan run a small organic bone fertiliser company in the outback. Business is thriving thanks to a special ingredient: human bodies. When Reg picks up three youngsters on their way to a music festival, it’s clear they’re not going to make it. Like the tonally similar …

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