Category: Features

Look Out For … Widow’s Point by Richard Chizmar & Billy Chizmar

February 1, 2018
2 mins to read

“Collaborating for the first time with his son Billy Chizmar, any new release from this author is a must-have.” Some of the residents of Harper’s Cove believe the Widow’s Point Lighthouse is cursed. Some think it’s haunted. For over 150 years, over two dozen people have died around the lighthouse. Their deaths remain unexplained. …

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Streaming Screams: The Premium Blend

February 1, 2018
11 mins to read

A recent conversation on social media prompted a close examination of the direct relationship between horror fiction and science-fiction. Not that this hasn’t been examined before, in much greater detail, by others taking a more scholarly approach. The simple statement is that yes, the two genres are more closely related than suggested by whatever Venn …

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Tattered Tomes: Volume One of Clive Barker’s The Books of Blood, Revisited

January 31, 2018
8 mins to read

One of my favorite places in all the world when I was growing up was the local Walden Books. This is back when horror was actually a separate genre, shelved apart from science-fiction and not lumped together with general fiction. Once a month I’d go there and search through the titles, looking for anything new …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 29 Jan 2018

January 29, 2018
4 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: iO9 have a trailer and short feature article, ahead of the Netflix release of The Ritual, in mid-February The New York Times explore the truth behind the new horror movie, Winchester, …