Category: Features

Give it All You Got by Giving it Away: How the Gift Economy is a Great Model for Professional Writers

The primary school my daughters used to attend had a strict non-competitive sports policy. This made their annual sports day a tedious affair. The main part of the day involved a song and dance routine that all the children performed, in which they sang about the importance of ‘taking part’ and patted themselves on the …

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Look Out For… Bodies Of Water by V.H. Leslie and Smoke by Dan Vyleta

Look Out For… … Bodies Of Water by V.H. Leslie “V.H. Leslie is one of the most talented writers the genre has.” After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 May 2016

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: Revisiting Pet Sematary by Richard Chizmar Screaming in Your Living Room: How VOD is Changing the Horror Industry The Queen of Sheba Versus The Beautiful Menace From Mars: Joanna …

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The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest

With Natalie Dormer chiller The Forest set to hit DVD in June, we take a look at the disturbing real life Suicide Forest in Japan that provided inspiration for the film. The Legend behind Japan’s Suicide Forest Every year, assembled groups made up of Japanese police and volunteers comb through the thirty-five kilometer expanse known …

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