Category: Features

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

March 8, 2016
5 mins to read

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

March 7, 2016
3 mins to read

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

March 1, 2016
5 mins to read

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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Voluntarily Committed: My Stay in a Haunted Asylum – Part Three

February 29, 2016
8 mins to read

Day Two A day in a dusty Asylum is much better when started with a shower. Even though I used the other shower this time, in a completely different room, I still had that uneasy feeling of company when no one else was there. It was a very quick shower. Croissants again for brekkie and …