Category: Features

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

Rain Water Drops

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

Resident Evil Nemesis

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 …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s The Dead Zone Revisited

  • July 4, 2016

  • 9 mins to read

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Following along with the psychic phenomenon craze of the 1970’s, The Dead Zone was one of many of the books by Stephen King to show us the horrors associated with the mind’s untapped abilities. Carrie covered telekinesis, and later little Danny Torrance had his ‘shine’ in the appropriately named The Shining. Many of the characters …

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