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:
- Dread Central explain why we need more fantasy in our horror
- The Horror Tree find out from Clay McLeod Chapman how to write timely stories in timeless ways
- The Lineup study the flooded Mexican town in the horrormance stories of Isabel Cañas
- Nightmare Magazine dig into archaeology in horror
- NightTide Magazine sit down for an author interview with Payton McCarty-Simas
Dread Central explain why we need more fantasy in our horror
Dread Central’s Dave Richards uses films, The Head Hunter and A Knight’s War to show why having more fantasy in horror could be a great thing.
The Horror Tree find out from Clay McLeod Chapman how to write timely stories in timeless ways
In this craft article for The Horror Tree, author Clay McLeod Chapman explains how to include timely elements in your stories without giving up timeless terror.
The Lineup study the flooded Mexican town in the horrormance stories of Isabel Cañas
The Lineup’s Kyle Lemmon looks at several of Isabel Cañas’ stories and books of horrormance and studies the flooded Mexican town which forms part of their inspiration.
Nightmare Magazine dig into archaeology in horror
Horror scholar and biocultural archaeologist Rebecca Stone Gordon digs into the use of archaeology in horror fiction in this fascinating article for Nightmare Magazine.
NightTide Magazine sit down for an author interview with Payton McCarty-Simas
NightTide Magazine’s Mo Moshaty sits down with author Payton McCarty-Simas to talk about forthcoming book That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American Witch Film and much more.
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KEV HARRISON