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 Ginger Nuts of Horror explains why the reason the Hellraiser sequels fell flat is the absence of love
- Horror DNA navigate the often confusing distinctions between self-, hybrid- and vanity-publishing
- Bloody Disgusting trace the origins of Silent Hill 2 back to Russian literature and Greek myth
- The Lineup take a tour of eleven of the best spooky horror bookstores across the USA
- NightTide Magazine look back to 1932’s The Mummy and uncover early queer horror themes
The Ginger Nuts of Horror explains why the reason the Hellraiser sequels fell flat is the absence of love
Author Kit Whitfield digs deep into the essence of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser stories and the films within the franchise and explains why the reason the sequels lost something of the original is an absence of love.
Horror DNA navigate the often confusing distinctions between self-, hybrid- and vanity-publishing
In this article for Horror DNA, author editor Rebecca Rowland spells out the distinction between the various paths available to writers who choose to eschew the path to traditional publishing.
Bloody Disgusting trace the origins of Silent Hill 2 back to Russian literature and Greek myth
Bloody Disgusting’s Luiz H. C. uses the forthcoming Christophe Gans adaptation of Silent Hill 2 to revisit the game’s origins and finds disparate threads harking back to ancient Greek myth and Russian literature.
The Lineup take a tour of eleven of the best spooky horror bookstores across the USA
Stephanie Zeeve, writing for The Lineup, travels coast to coast across the USA and highlights eleven of the very best spooky horror bookstores for readers to top up their TBRs.
NightTide Magazine look back to 1932’s The Mummy and uncover early queer horror themes
Author and academic Mo Moshaty looks back at 1932’s The Mummy, and finds the features of queer horror, decades before the sub-genre was fully established, in this article for NightTide Magazine.
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KEV HARRISON