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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 Sep 2017

September 4, 2017
3 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: Horror Was Giving Us Strong Female Characters Long Before Wonder Woman Dee Wallace Looks Back At Her Horror Career A Look Back At The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Tobe …

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Look Out For … I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist

August 31, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist “Equal parts heartbreaking and horrifying.” Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each …

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Searchlight: Supernatural Horror in Literature

August 29, 2017
5 mins to read

Most horror fans celebrate H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday this month—August 20th to be exact—as the recent NecronomiCon festival just ended in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft’s birthplace, with a massive celebration of all things Weird. Lovecraft’s fiction is rather polarizing, stemming from obvious racism in some of his works. My friend Gabino Iglesias, recently commented on social …

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In Memoriam: Tobe Hooper (1943–2017)

August 28, 2017
4 mins to read

William Tobe Hooper, legendary director, writer, and producer, passed away of natural causes 26 August, 2017. He was 74 years old. Hooper was directly involved in eighteen films and several television shows, but will always be remembered for his 1974 film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Considered one of the most influential horror films of …