Category: Features

When the Kickstarter Stops and the Indiego-Goes

  • April 13, 2016

  • 16 mins to read

Aside from working in a bookshop for a year, and working as a journalist for a decade, the only proper job I’ve ever had was the couple of months I spent working in a porn shop in the middle of Leicester Square, about twenty years ago. Quite presciently, given my later career as a horror …

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Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken and The Bad Game by Adam Millard

  • April 12, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken “Written a constantly engaging and evocative style, full of twists, turns and note-perfect endings.” Here is the whisper in the night, the dog whose loyalty outlasted death, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 April 2016

  • April 11, 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: What I Learned from Stephen King: ‘Christine’ & The Roads Traveled Five of the Most Creative Monsters Why Sound Design in Horror Gaming Matters Jaws-Inspired Summer Reading: Part One …

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The Cutting Room – The Invitation

  • April 7, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body), the tension is palpable when Will (Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus) shows up to his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard, Into the Woods) and new husband, David’s (Michiel Huisman, “Game of Thrones“) dinner party. The pair’s tragic past haunts an equally spooky present: Amid Eden’s suspicious behavior …

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