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5 Must Read Horror Articles 14 September 2026

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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:

Crime Reads hear from author Rachel Harrison on why weddings make the perfect backdrop for horror

To coincide with the release of her new novel, Kiss, Slay, Replay, author Rachel Harrison explains why weddings make the perfect backdrop for a horror story in this article for Crime Reads.

What Sleeps Beneath study social horror and the architecture of dehumanisation in the genre

In this fascinating long read for What Sleeps Beneath, writer Christian Dávalos considers the architecture of dehumanisation in the horror genre.

Bloody Disgusting look back to 1959’s Curse of the Undead and find perhaps the first horror western

Brian Keiper, writing for Bloody Disgusting, looks back to 1959’s Curse of the Undead and finds what may be the first horror western, and a film which presaged Near Dark, Bone Tomohawk, and many more.

The Ginger Nuts of Horror consider the concept of the cursed film and why 1994 is the perfect setting

The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Jim McLeod unpacks the choice of 1994 as the setting for Hailey Piper’s new cursed film-related novel, This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, and explains why the period makes a cursed movie so terrifyingly plausible.

Dread Central sit down for an interview with Zach Cregger and Austin Abrams on the new Resident Evil

Dread Central’s Matt Konopka sits down with Zach Cregger and Austin Abrams, director and star of the new adaptation of Resident Evil respectively, to find out more about the latest journey of the survival horror game to the big screen.

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KEV HARRISON