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February 10, 2017
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3 mins to read
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Crystal Lake to release Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest collection Crystal Lake publishing have announced what may be the broadest ever collection of short fiction and poetry on the topic of the mutant rain forest. Edited …
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February 8, 2017
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7 mins to read
Women in Horror month is an annual event when we celebrate women horror writers. Sounds fairly obvious, but there’s an emphasis here that’s worth mentioning. At first glance, the genre appears to be sadly male dominated. Yet the first real science-fiction/horror story, Frankenstein, gothic and tragic with large dollops of horror poured on thick, was …
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February 3, 2017
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4 mins to read
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … Shut In, starring Oscar nominee Naomi Watts gets VOD, DVD & Blu-Ray release Naomi Watts stars as Mary, a child psychologist who must find out what happened to a patient who has disappeared, in …
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January 31, 2017
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9 mins to read
I came by Peter Straub’s Koko first by mass market paperback. I remember distinctly not reading it when it first released in 1988, mainly because I was a junior in college and my studies and a steady girlfriend kept me wrapped up tight. I was in love and behind the eight-ball, so I couldn’t be …
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January 30, 2017
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3 mins to read
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: Things are getting strange south of the border: The new wave of Mexican horror Fifteen years on, Donnie Darko universe to be revisited Zak Bagan’s Haunted Museum to feature …
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January 27, 2017
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3 mins to read
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … Nicholas Pesce’s The Eyes of my Mother to be realeased in UK cinemas 24 March The critically acclaimed and long awaited The Eyes of my Mother has finally been scheduled for a UK-wide general release on 24 …
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January 20, 2017
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3 mins to read
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … British genre film Cruel Summer set for DVD and VOD release Cruel Summer is the harrowing story of a group of three young people, led by an out-of-control boy with a thirst for violent revenge, Nicholas, …
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January 20, 2017
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6 mins to read
When it comes to writers that are pushing the envelope of what horror and weird fiction can accomplish, Gemma Files is one name that people mention on a regular basis. Writer, screenwriter, film critic, Files has her fingers in nearly every aspect of the writing life. Two of her scripts were produced for episodes of …
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January 18, 2017
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6 mins to read
Horror lovers thrive on fear. There’s something about the tension, the building suspense, the big reveal of the monster in the final scenes. We crave it, even if we’re reading with all the lights on, or watching the movie from behind our fingers covering our eyes. The stories we read fill our minds with vivid …
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January 16, 2017
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4 mins to read
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, died Thursday evening, January 12th, 2017. He was 89 years old. Though he wasn’t very prolific, his story of a young girl possessed by a demon made a huge impact on readers all over the world. Blatty’s follow up to The Exorcist twelve years later, Legion was later …
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