Category: Features

The Cutting Room: You Are Not Alone

  • January 7, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare… With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent figure. After a night of drunken parties, she stumbles home and drifts off to sleep, only to …

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Rise of the House of Dread: An Appreciation of Penny Dreadful

  • January 6, 2016

  • 7 mins to read

Rise of the House of Dread An Appreciation of the Showtime Original Series Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful is the Saturday Creature Feature television series you didn’t even know you were craving. Combining the tales of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman and Dorian Grey, Showtime and Sky hid out in their laboratory and cobbled together this shiny …

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Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison and African Monsters

  • January 5, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison “Ellison’s stories provide a skewed and indignant view on our own world and its foibles.” Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see ’em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he’s gone. Ellison’s a double agent who …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 January 2016

  • January 4, 2016

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, and a whole new year of great articles hand-picked for your reading pleasure from the internet. Unsurprisingly, ‘best-of 2015’ lists are ubiquitous this week, but not here as, frankly, we’ve had enough of them. This week: Fangoria’s Petrifying Predictions for Horror in 2016! We All See Dead People: Horror’s Postmodern …

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