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The ‘I’ in Horror

April 17, 2013
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Writers of great horror don’t hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm. Settings may be familiar, but somehow they are also warped. ‘Natural’ elements are inevitably of the ‘un’ or ‘super’ variety. Plots are designed to unnerve. In horror, the …

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Let’s Drink to the Dead by Simon Bestwick

April 16, 2013
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Let’s Drink to the Dead is a must read for anyone who enjoyed Simon Bestwick’s second novel, The Faceless. Set in the same Lancashire town of Kempforth, it features three interconnected stories that create a prequel to the events of the novel. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Wol-vriey

April 15, 2013
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Wol-vriey is Nigerian, and quite tall. He currently resides in a state of uneasy stalemate with his threatening-to-thin-beyond-redemption hair, and believes there actually are things that go bump in the night. Wol-vriey is the author of The Bizarro Story of I, The Clockwork Goddess and Chainsaw Cop Corpse. Keep on reading…

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 April 2013

April 15, 2013
3 mins to read

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror, the place to discover the best articles of the week. This week: Canuxploitation: The Primer 4 Reasons Why Most Horror Remakes Fail HowStuffWorks: How Tremors Graboids Work I Choose To Stand: Retrospective: The Howling How We Made Knightmare For more articles like this, please follow @thisishorror on Twitter. …