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The Cutting Room – Bates Motel (Season 4)

Years before Marion Crane made the unwise decision to spend the night at the Bates Motel, young Norman and his mother Norma (still very much alive at this point) were already getting up to all kinds of adventures. Why we’re looking forward to this: About to kick off its fourth season, Bates Motel has been …

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Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle and Noctuidae by Scott Nicolay

Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle “Scary, unpredictable and wonderfully evocative of the grimier side of the Jazz Age.” People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 March 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week. So, without further ado: Thomas Ligotti’s Uncanny Horror and the Future of Holocaust Fiction The Pathetic Fallacy Made Flesh: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” Love For The Craft: The Weird Tales Of W.H. …

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Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen and The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …

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