Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in:

• How Horror Movies Helped Me To Get Over My PTSD
• Cinematography Tips For Horror Filmmakers
• Are Women Changing the Face of Television’s Horror Genre?
• And Then a Cat Jumps Out: In Defense of Horror Movie Jump Scares
• Christopher Lee, 1922-2015

For more articles like this, please follow @thisishorror on Twitter.

How Horror Movies Helped Me to Get Over My PTSD

In this article over at Vice, Kate Jones, whose house burned down during a particularly violent storm, explains how horror movies helped her to deal with PTSD.

Cinematography Tips for Horror Filmmakers

Have you ever watched a horror film and wondered how they made it look so…bleak, or why they gave it a certain grading? Then wonder no more. Premium Beat offers some cinematography tips for horror filmmakers.

Are Women Changing the Face of Television’s Horror Genre?

Observer takes a look at how women are heading up some of the best TV horror series doing the rounds right now, including Penny Dreadful and American Horror Story.

And Then a Cat Jumps Out: In Defense of Horror Movie Jump Scares

Horror mainstay or something that should have been buried with William Castle? In this day and age, the horror movie jump-scare is often considered a cheap move, something the filmmakers fall back on if there’s no other way to scare you shitless. In this article, Screen Crush explains why surprise attacks/false alarms – the two categories jump scares fall into – aren’t as bad as people make out.

Christopher Lee, 1922-2015

In this article from The Hollywood Reporter, the film industry pay tribute to horror legend, Sir Christopher Lee, who sadly passed away on June 7.

ADAM MILLARD

Support This Is Horror Podcast on Patreon

• For $1 you get early bird access to all our podcasts and can submit questions to guests.
• For $3 you get access to our patrons-only podcast Story Unboxed: The Horror Podcast on the Craft of Writing.
• For $4 you get the full interview, no two-parters.

The best way to support This Is Horror is via Patreon. How much will you pledge? Go on. Be awesome.

Visit our Patreon page and pledge to the This Is Horror Podcast today. 

This Is Horror Books

Head on over to the This Is Horror Shop to see the books we have available. We have a special offer on All Four Year One Books—JUST £10!

This Is Horror Books on Kindle Unlimited and Amazon

• They Don’t Come Home Anymore by T.E. Grau
• A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman
• The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
• The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones
• Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley
• Chalk by Pat Cadigan
• Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey

Subscribe, Rate and Review on iTunes!

Help the Podcast, spread the word: subscribe, rate and review on iTunes UK, iTunes US or your country’s iTunes.

Amazon Affiliates

Support us by shopping through our Amazon Affiliate links: Amazon UK and Amazon US.