Category: Features

Tattered Tomes: Into Dragon Valley–Koko by Peter Straub, Revisited

  • January 31, 2017

  • 9 mins to read

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I came by Peter Straub’s Koko first by mass market paperback. I remember distinctly not reading it when it first released in 1988, mainly because I was a junior in college and my studies and a steady girlfriend kept me wrapped up tight. I was in love and behind the eight-ball, so I couldn’t be …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 January 2017

  • January 30, 2017

  • 3 mins to read

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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:   Things are getting strange south of the border: The new wave of Mexican horror Fifteen years on, Donnie Darko universe to be revisited Zak Bagan’s Haunted Museum to feature …

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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez

  • January 26, 2017

  • 2 mins to read

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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez “Her fiction is that pulse-racingly superb, that electric and original.” A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son …

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Voices in the Night: My Favorite Audiobooks of 2016

  • January 24, 2017

  • 6 mins to read

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As someone who has spent their entire adult life driving through the nights along the freeways and interstates of Southern California, I long ago realized that I would rapidly go insane and murder everyone I came into contact with if I was left with only the Top 40 radio stations or the AM blowhards to …

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