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Tattered Tomes: Volume Three of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood

Volume Three of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood

It was sometime after seeing Hellraiser that I finally read Clive Barker’s third volume of his Books of Blood series. There was a glimmer of hope that nestled within the pages was a story that might shed some additional light on his first film. This was pre-internet, a strange time when information was at a …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 Jun 2018

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: As he bows out of Ash Vs Evil Dead, Bloody Disgusting highlight six of Bruce Campbell’s best horror movie roles Gizmodo offer up six horror characters as deserving of a …

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Look Out For … The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield

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“The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield promises to combine thrilling international intrigue with the occult during the height of the Cold War in ways we’ve never seen before.” The Cold War, 1963. A botched assassination of a traitor forces British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter to escape London. With a mysterious woman named Karina …

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Searchlight: Writing Without Rules

Writing Without Rules by Jeff Somers

Spend any amount of time studying the craft of writing and you’ll come to realize that there are too many “rules”, and a lot of the time, these rules conflict and contradict each other. There are some standards that have withstood the test of time, such as “read, read, read”, but that seems more like …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 Jun 2018

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: BBC Culture feature an article about horror as perhaps the most disrespected genre Blood Disgusting have lined up eight beach horror movies to make you think twice about that …

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Look Out For … Walking Alone: Short Stories by Bentley Little

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“With some stories never collected before, and a few originals thrown in the mix, Bentley Little’s first collection in over a decade is destined to be another classic of the genre.”   Sticky Notes. Hotel maids. Small town rodeos. Snowmen. At times, all of these things can be innocent, completely safe. But in the hands …

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Streaming Screams: You’re So Cool, Brewster!

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Confession time: I love the film Fright Night. It’s an annual Halloween film tradition. Own the Blu ray. Owned the VHS, the DVD, used to have the poster until it was accidentally destroyed. I knew of the documentary film, You’re So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night when it released two years ago, but …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 Jun 2018

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: The New York Times have a wonderful feature article on Hereditary and the shift in the horror film genre towards subtler forms of terror What Culture have a feature on ten …

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Look Out For … Coldfall Wood by Steven Savile

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“A forgotten god hunted by a reluctant hero trying to save the world, written by one of the masters of the genre, is enough to get any horror fan’s attention.”   Six girls, completely unrelated, who have never met, all come down with a strange illness that renders them comatose at the same time. Miles away, …

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Streaming Screams: Lost Soul

Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells’ classic novel Island of Doctor Moreau is one the best examples of how horror and science-fiction can blend seamlessly together to challenge our concepts of life and death, identity, and morality. A cautionary tale about the evils of playing God with nature, the novel has been adapted to film several times, most notably …

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