5 Must Read Articles – 1 April 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: Friends, Fans, Mourn Well-Known Westbrook Horror Author Zombies: Fine And Decomposing Art The 10 Creepiest Ventriloquist Dummies Of All Time Sell-Out Or Not: Robert Englund The A-Z Of …

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Considering the legacy of women writers in horror fiction

February is the shortest month of the year, noteworthy for Valentine’s Day and making the annual batch of pancakes (poorly, in my case, and to the detriment of my kitchen!) and for the last two years it has played host to Women in Horror Recognition Month. I may be a month too late but, as …

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Colin F. Barnes Interview

Colin F. Barnes is a writer of SF/Technothriller and horror. He’s influenced by his everyday life, and the weird happenings that go on in the shadowy locales of Essex, UK. Colin likes to blend genres and is currently working on a Cyberpunk/Techothriller series The Techxorcist. Colin also runs a micro-digital publisher Anachron Press specialising in genre …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 March

Midnight Echo

Tom Six takes a short cut to hell Director Tom Six, currently filming The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) will be on the judging panel for the horror film competition 666 Short Cuts to Hell. Six will be joined on the panel by Total Film genre expert Rosie Fletcher and Horror Channel’s Emily Booth amongst …

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Quartets and Canaries: The Wild, Sexy, Scary World of Radley Metzger

I always relish a challenge, and so when our esteemed editor here at This Is Horror asked me if I might be able to write an article concentrating on the more horror-oriented aspects of the work of highly respected erotic movie auteur Radley Metzger, I jumped at the chance. Three of Metzger’s earlier adult works …

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Mike Carey Interview

Mike Carey started out as a comics writer (Lucifer, Hellblazer, X-Men, The Unwritten) before branching out into prose fiction with the Felix Castor series. He has since written nine novels, including two mainstream thrillers under the pseudonym of Adam Blake. His movie, screenplay Dominion, is in development with Slingshot Studios and Intrepid Pictures. Keep on reading…

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Wanting The Dusk: escaping the nine to five

I seem doomed to keep breaking my pledges where this column’s concerned. The first instalment of Heretic Songs was back in September, and I said I’d see you next month; after which, nothing more until February. In that instalment, I pledged to talk next about the role of supernatural horror fiction when religious belief wasn’t …

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Writers And Punks: In Memory of Rick Hautala

Rick Hautala

I have written about Rick Hautala many times over the years—his bio when he was Guest of Honor at our beloved Necon, the introduction to the reissue of his wonderful first novel, Moondeath, and the announcement of his HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, among others—but I never thought that I would be writing this. I hope …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 March 2013

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, where we bring you the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: 10 Horror Movies Based On Actual Events Looking Back At The Book Of The Dead Was James Herbert As Good As Stephen King? These B-Movie Horrors Rate An ‘A’ Ten Top Cabin-In-The-Woods Movies …

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Silent Hill: Revelation

The history regarding film adaptions of video games is not particularly littered with success stories. However, as the Resident Evil series will convey, critical maulings don’t always match up with the box office. The good news with the original Silent Hill film is that it tried to stick close to its roots and convey a creepy atmosphere. Silent Hill: Revelation seems …

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