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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 July 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: “Take Me to Your Bleeder”: The Monstrous Side of Aliens on Film The Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes Survival Horror Is Alive …

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Power and influence (warner Hannibal spoilers inside)

He puts his head back and closes his eyes, the final image of a fugitive Hannibal closes the second season of the namesake show, and what a powerful image to go out on. It demonstrates many major themes played out during the 13 episode arc that picked up with Will Graham wrongfully imprisoned and framed …

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Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick and Ceremony Of Flies by Kate Jonez

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Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick “ A mixture of old school episodic storytelling and modern techniques reminiscent of found-footage films.” “There’s a place, out in North Wales, where things have happened. Bad things, strange things. Dark things. At the heart of it there’s a mountain, and they call it Mynydd Du: Black …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 June 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: A Brief History of Canadian Horror on Film The Art-Horror Film: Genius or Pretentious? 8-Bit Terror: Nintendo’s Horror Games That Inspired a Thriving Subgenre Love Horror’s Six Greatest Givers of Gore What …

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Less is More: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …

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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle and Touched by Joanna Briscoe

Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!”  When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …

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Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti and Acolytes Of Cthulhu

Look Out For…  The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 June 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: Bugging Out: Five of the Greatest Killer Bug Flicks From Carrie to The Shining: A History of Stephen King Film Adaptations Toys of Terror #11 The Origins of …

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Look Out For… Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital by Mark Morris and The Fever by Megan Abbott

Look Out For…  Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital by Mark Morris ” In an overcrowded field, Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital really does look like that rarest of finds: a zombie novel that’s different.” London is in turmoil following riots and the Trafalgar Square Massacre. A doctor in a big East End hospital, already hard hit by …

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