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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 December 2014

Welcome once again to Must Read Horror. With Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Bonfire Night well and truly behind us, there’s only Christmas to look forward to this year. That, and four more editions of Must Read Horror. This week: Hellraiser – Making Beauty Out of Body Horror Noteworthy Performances in Horror: Piper Laurie in Carrie The …

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The Cutting Room: Big Driver and The Stand

Big Driver Tess Thorne (Maria Bello), a famous mystery writer who gets sidetracked during a long drive home from a book signing. After deciding to take a shortcut, she becomes stranded on a lonely New England road when her tire blows out. Thorne encounters another driver (Will Harris) who turns out to be a serial …

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Terror Tots: Mikey

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, we’re all getting ready to see and hear the excited chatter of the nation’s children as they gradually get ever more stoked on the natural high that is the season. Letters will soon be sent off to Father Christmas, filled with the requisite lists of toys and (these …

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Look Out For… The Nickronomicon by Nick Mamatas and European Monsters

Look Out For… The Nickronomicon by Nick Mamatas “It’s a rare writer indeed who can write a Lovecraftian story that’s simultaneously funny and unnerving.” This vile tome collects thirteen blasphemous Lovecraftan tales of a certain scribe named Nick Mamatas. Warning: May contain shoggoths, martial arts, weirdness, Nyarlathotep, fish people from Innsmouth, and copious literary references. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 24 November 2014

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Summoning Darkness, Exuding Light: Remembering Dark Fiction Renegade, JF Gonzalez The Best Horror Stories For Children Revisiting ‘Salem’s Lot by Richard Chizmar The 10 Goriest Slashers of the …

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The Cutting Room: Dario Argento’s The Sandman

This week in The Cutting Room we’re looking forward to a collaboration between a couple of legends… The Sandman The Sandman tells the story of Nathan, a young student in the city who struggles to forget his childhood trauma at the hands of the serial killer dubbed “The Sandman”. Nathan killed The Sandman years ago, …

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Look Out For… Blood Crazy by Simon Clark and Haunted

Look Out For… Blood Crazy by Simon Clark “A wonderfully written, thought-provoking, and very dark novel.” It is a quiet, uneventful Saturday in Doncaster. Nick Aten, and his best friend Steve Price – troubled seventeen year olds – spend it as usual hanging around the sleepy town, eating fast food and planning their revenge on …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 November 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. We search the internet for notable horror articles, so you don’t have to. This week: King, Carrie, and a Religious Revelation by Ray Garton Pinocchio’s Dark Horror – and Darker Source Material Mary Shelley’s Other Horror Story – Lessons for Super-Pandemics The Many Faces of The Thing Scary Monsters and …

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The Cutting Room: Backcountry and Burying The Ex

Backcountry Alex (Jeff Roop), a seasoned outdoorsman, persuades his corporate lawyer other half Jenn (Missy Peregrym) to let him take her on a camping trip deep into the Canadian wilderness to one of his favourite spots, the secluded Blackfoot Trail. On the first night of their trip the couple have an unsettling encounter with with …

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Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory

Wakening the Crow

Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory ‘Themes and ideas linger long in the mind.’ Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store …

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