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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 March 2024

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 ask what exactly is a cryptid and where can you find one

The Lineup’s Kelsey Christine McConnell wonders on the existence of cryptids and offers up this list of them from various corners of the world.

Bloody Disgusting look back twenty years at The Butterfly Effect and the dark side of time travel

Luiz H. C., writing for Bloody Disgusting, casts his eye over 2004’s The Butterfly Effect and considers the darker side of time travel.

The Horror Tree wonder about the blending of genres from the perspective of reader and writer

Ahead of the release of her debut novella, The Hiding, author Alethea Lyons writes this article on blending genres and the different perspectives on this of reader and writer.

What Sleeps Beneath explain how horror games use mirror neurons to up the scares

Writer, musician and gamer Brandon Allison gets into the details of how horror games activate mirror neurons in our brains to elevate the scares in this article for What Sleeps Beneath.

Author C. J. Cooke sits down to talk hauntings with The Ginger Nuts of Horror

C. J. Cooke, author of A Haunting in the Arctic, sits down with The Ginger Nuts of Horror to talk spooks, spectres and much more.

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KEV HARRISON