Category: Features

The Comforts of the Coffin: Finding Solace in Horror Cinema

July 7, 2016
5 mins to read

The Comforts of the Coffin: Finding Solace in Horror Cinema There’s always something to worry about. If it’s not the political chaos caused by the recent referendum, there’s the fear that an asteroid could wipe out all life on earth, that a superbug will eradicate most of the population, or that the mega volcano under …

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Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates and The Pale Brown Thing by Fritz Leiber

July 5, 2016
5 mins to read

Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …

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The Dark Water of Koji Suzuki

July 5, 2016
9 mins to read

Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 July 2016

July 4, 2016
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: Ranking The Core Resident Evil Games Face Off! Independence Day Versus War Of The Worlds The History Of Dark Shadows Why Outcast Could Be The New Walking Dead Terror …