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Look Out For… Consumed by David Cronenberg and Gifts For The One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

Look Out For … Consumed by David Cronenberg “Promises murder, philosophy, strange diseases and an incredible variety of sex.” The debut novel by the iconic film director. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 September 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: Summer of Sleaze: The Manitou by Graham Masterton Graham Joyce (1954-2014) The Horror Genius of Guillermo del Toro What Women In 70s Slasher Films Tell Us About Women …

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The Cutting Room: Monsters: Dark Continent and The Green Inferno

Monsters: Dark Continent Six years ago a NASA probe returning to Earth with samples of an alien life form crashed in Central America. As deadly creatures began to appear half of Mexico was quarantined as the military tried to contain the aliens in designated Infected Zones. Now the creatures have spread, taking over more of …

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Look Out For… Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix and The End by Gary McMahon

Look Out For … Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix “This is either going to be a work of genre-bending genius, or a honourable failure.” Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Brooka glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofa beds; clearly, someone or something …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 September 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: 20 Great 80s B-Horror Movies That Are Worth Your Time Horror Sidekick Spotlight: Peter Lorre The Aural Aesthetics of Ghosts in BBC Ghost Stories – Part 1 (Introduction) …

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The Cutting Room: As Above So Below

This week’s Cutting Room is going underground. As Above So Below Beneath the streets of Paris lie the Catacombs, miles and miles of dark, narrow passages lined with the bones of six million bodies. When a team of urban archaeologists venture into its depths to unearth an ancient artefact they find instead that the deeper …

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Look Out For… A Long Time Til Morning by Dennis Etchison and The Spectral Book Of Horror Stories

Look Out For … A Long Time Til Morning by Dennis Etchison “Promises to be a veritable treasure trove of weird fiction.” Dennis Etchison is a master of psychological horror. Starting with The Dark Country (1982), his work has been critically lauded by mainstream publications and other writers in the genre. This is the first …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 September 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: 7 Irish Horror Movies Worth A Look Ray Bradbury: The Best Writing Teacher You Could Ever Have Black Country Prophet: Joel Lane Archive 1 Horror History: The First …

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The Cutting Room: Jessabelle and A Good Marriage

This week in The Cutting Room we’ve got a couple of chillers for you. Jessabelle After surviving a car accident in which her fiancé is killed, Jessie (Sarah Snook) returns to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate. While there, she discovers several video tapes containing messages to her from her long dead mother, and …

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Looking towards British Fantasy Con 2014

Once again convention season is upon us here in the UK, but the main one I particularly look forward to every year is Fantasy Con, this time being held in the Royal York Hotel, York on 5–7 September. It’s where writers, editors, publishers, and assorted industry folk, as well as readers, fans, and bloggers, get …

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