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:

• Morbidly Beautiful look back at cult classic werewolf movie, Ginger Snaps, and its lasting effects on feminist horror
• Bloody Disgusting tell us which five Universal classic horrors are underseen and ripe for revisiting
• LitReactor tells us how sleep may just be the most important thing in levelling up your writing
• E. V. Knight writes for Ink Heist on her novel The Fourth Whore, and evaluates reclaiming the term for women
• Matthew R. Davis looks at how pivotal the band The Cure have been to his life and writing on Kendall Reviews

Morbidly Beautiful look back at cult classic werewolf movie, Ginger Snaps, and its lasting effects on feminist horror

Jack Wilhelmi writes for Morbidly Beautiful on the cult werewolf classic, Ginger Snaps, now twenty years old and picks up just how much it did for feminism in horror.

Bloody Disgusting tell us which five Universal classic horrors are underseen and ripe for revisiting

Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro picks out five underappreciated Universal classic horrors which ought to be resurrected for modern film.

LitReactor tells us how sleep may just be the most important thing in levelling up your writing

Writing for LitReactor, Peter Derk analyses the facts and the myths around higher performance and determines that a good night’s sleep may be just the thing to help you level up your writing.

E. V. Knight writes for Ink Heist on her novel The Fourth Whore, and evaluates reclaiming the term for women

When she was writing her female-led, book of revelation-style four horsewomen novel, The Fourth Whore, E. V. Knight spent a fair amount of time about the term. In this essay for Ink Heist, she unpacks the history of it and evaluates the reclaiming of it for women.

Matthew R. Davis looks at how pivotal the band The Cure have been to his life and writing on Kendall Reviews

Beginning with the title of his recent collection, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, itself taken from The Cure’s 1987 album, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, writer Matthew R. Davis writes this guest post on just how pivotal The Cure have been to him and his writing.

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