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 Lineup dig up the forgotten past of Britain’s network of corpse roads
- Crime Reads select seven superb horror novels set in the American south
- What Sleeps Beneath investigate the slew of recent great horrors and find a Gen Z scene full of promise
- Dread Central take Penny Lane is Dead as a jumping off point for a tour of the Ozploitation sub-genre
- Author Vincent Ralph sits down with The Ginger Nuts of Horror to talk about grief in his horrors
The Lineup dig up the forgotten past of Britain’s network of corpse roads
The Lineup’s Richard Clements digs into British countryside history and finds the cross-country trails of the corpse road in this fascinating article.
Crime Reads select seven superb horror novels set in the American south
Fresh from the release of new southern set novel These Walls Remember, author Del Sandeen curates this list of seven superb horrors set in the American south at Crime Reads.
What Sleeps Beneath investigate the slew of recent great horrors and find a Gen Z scene full of promise
Writer Cailín Frankland, in this article for What Sleeps Beneath, delves into the slew of excellent horror films from 2026 so far and notes that Gen Z creators are showing huge promise for a bright future in the genre.
Dread Central take Penny Lane is Dead as a jumping off point for a tour of the Ozploitation sub-genre
Dread Central’s Daniel Kurland takes Penny Lane is Dead and uses it as the ideal jumping off point to explore the raw, ruthless Ozploitation sub-genre.
Author Vincent Ralph sits down with The Ginger Nuts of Horror to talk about grief in his horrors
The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Jim McLeod sits down with Vincent Ralph for an author interview focusing on the use of grief in his books Corpse Creek and Bleak Haven, and much more besides.
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KEV HARRISON
