Category: Features

Streaming Screams: Modern Television and the Cinematic Style

January 9, 2018
10 mins to read

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 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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Tattered Tomes: Revisiting The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

January 2, 2018
9 mins to read

It was the biggest horror fiction collaboration ever. A venture so huge the publishers spent half a million (which was quite a lot for a release in 1984) promoting the book. Two horror writers, the best of the best at the top of their game, writing together for the first time. They were thinking bestseller …