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Searchlight: Zdzisław Beksiński

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Born in Poland in 1929, Zdzisław Beksiński is perhaps one of the most renowned surreal artists in the world. Sadly, he was murdered in Warsaw in 2005, robbing the world of this tender man who only wanted to paint his nightmares. Beksiński rarely named his pieces, and never set them up in any order for …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 Sep 2017

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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

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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

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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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