Category: Features

Searchlight: Lore

November 21, 2017
3 mins to read

When writing horror, one thing that can make a story really scary is making it believable. For a lot of writers that means scouring the internet, books, historical records and more to find equivalents to the situations we are writing about. I was on just such an information hunt when I stumbled upon Lore, and …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 Nov 2017

November 20, 2017
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: No Film School highlights ten horror films that ought to be on every indie film student’s watch list John Ajvide Lindqvist reveals what scares him to The Straits Times …

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Look Out For … The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette

November 16, 2017
2 mins to read

“Winnette takes on the gothic ghost story, delivering ghastly chills with a literary flair. “ Newly arrived at an exclusive boys’ school for orphans, it doesn’t take long to realize something isn’t right. His classmates are extremely hostile, and the Headmaster is more than a little … extreme. And there’s the whispers he hears at …

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Searchlight: Christopher Young

November 14, 2017
4 mins to read

Chances are you’ve heard plenty of Christopher Young’s music through the years, especially if you like horror. From 1982’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood through 2014’s Deliver Us from Evil, Young has been steady at work providing the aural background of some of the genre’s most popular films. He’s composed soundtracks for Tales from the …