Category: Features

Look Out For … Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

  • January 11, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley -cover

“Besides fostering the modern age of science-fiction, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic horror story, evoking powerful dynamics as we see creator become monster, and monster become human.” Cadavers fresh from the grave, cobbled together with stitches, a mad doctor creates an abomination in his hidden laboratory. Using science to reanimate lifeless tissue, Victor Frankenstein’s obsessions …

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Streaming Screams: Modern Television and the Cinematic Style

  • January 9, 2018

  • 10 mins to read

Tony Soprano

We are in the Golden Age of television. There are more quality television shows running now than successful movies. Producers, directors, studios, and actors have noticed, shifting their creative focus to the glass box and away from the silver screen. Certainly, there are still great films being made, with a lot of the better films …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 Jan 2018

  • January 8, 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: Vulture have a quite astonishing list of horror highlights to watch out for in 2018 The Verge have a list of genre fiction releases coming in 2018 Paste Magazine …

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Look Out For … The Hunger by Alma Katsu

  • January 4, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

The Hunger by Alma Katsu - cover

“The Hunger provides us a chilling, albeit twisted, historical view of what could have actually happened; a “what-if” that aims to terrify as well as inform.” Ninety people. Men, women, and children, set on a new beginning at the other side of America … California. The terrain is relentless, but a new short-cut just might …

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