Adam Millard

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Book Review: Disorders of Magnitude by Jason V Brock

  • February 6, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

“Marvellous interviews – well worth a look” Rowman and Littlefield, publishers of high class academic texts at even higher prices, have added a new title to their Studies in Supernatural Literature series. Previous volumes have dealt with specific authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Lord Dunsany and H P Lovecraft. Disorders of Magnitude (that’s a great …

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Terror Tots: The Children (1980)

  • February 4, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

Ah, Troma. Most recognised as purveyors of some of the cheapest, most insane guerrilla filmmaking within the genre and home to classics such as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., it’s often surprising to find them behind distribution of the odd serious horror flick. One such film is Max Kalmanowicz’s 1980 nuclear-horror The Children. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 February 2015

  • February 2, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Weekly 5: Five Things to Read Before The Scarlet Gospels Horror and the Sad Reality of Gender Discrimination The 15 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time Silent Hills vs The Evil …

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Re(a)d Letter Day: What Makes a Monster?

  • January 30, 2015

  • 8 mins to read

So what makes a good ‘monster’ in horror fiction/films? Why does one individual creation strike home with millions of readers/viewers to become a ‘classic’ with the passage of time, while others last only as long as the book’s/film’s length does and immediately plunge into obscurity? What qualities make for a nemesis that lingers on in …

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