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:
- NightTide Magazine reveals how The Backrooms updates an ancient existentialism for a modern audience
- The Lineup pick out nine perfect middle grade horrors to keep your adventurous kids busy this summer
- Dread Central look back at the chaos of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive forty years on
- Horror DNA consider the topic of scientific realism in modern horror
- Nightmare Magazine sit down with Chloe Lauter for an author interview on The Flayed Man
NightTide Magazine reveals how The Backrooms updates an ancient existentialism for a modern audience
Writer Peyton Mills looks beyond the fairly recent phenomenon of creepy pasta and points to another, ancient, kind of existentialism The Backrooms updates for the modern audience in this article for NightTide Magazine.
The Lineup pick out nine perfect middle grade horrors to keep your adventurous kids busy this summer
The Lineup’s Jena Brown selects nine middle grade horrors perfect to keep the most adventurous kids busy during the summer break.
Dread Central look back at the chaos of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive forty years on
Matt Konopka, writing for Dread Central, looks back at Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive in its fortieth year and analyses the chaos of the film.
Horror DNA consider the topic of scientific realism in modern horror
The Horror DNA team pull together a detailed craft on article on how writers might approach scientific realism in modern horror.
Nightmare Magazine sit down with Chloe Lauter for an author interview on The Flayed Man
Nightmare Magazine’s Alex Puncekar sits down with author Chloe Lauter to discuss her debut novel, The Flayed Man and much more.
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