Category: Features

Tattered Tomes: The Silver Limbic Highway – Kathe Koja’s Bad Brains, Revisited

October 21, 2015
10 mins to read

If you’re a fan of horror fiction, surely you know the work of Kathe Koja. I first heard of her work reading a horror lit zine in the early 90s in a promo article touting her soon to be released novel The Cipher. The local strip mall installed a Hastings and they had the best …

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Look Out For… Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach by Ramsey Campbell

October 20, 2015
5 mins to read

Look Out For… Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard “This is no normal mythos rip off, but a sleek and stylish novel full of clever dialogue and original twists.” Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case–the hunt for a serial killer–went wrong in strange ways and soured the job …

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Injured Eyeballs: Who the Fuck is Michael McDowell? – Part Three

October 19, 2015
10 mins to read

Given that this is the third column I’ve devoted to the criminally underrated horror author Michael McDowell, you’ve probably guessed that I’m quite partial to his work. There aren’t many writers whose entire canon I’ve devoured, and having done so I’m determined to share every ounce of my enthusiasm with you. So without further ado, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 19 October 2015

October 19, 2015
3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Why Hotels and Motels Always House Horror in Pop Culture Houses of Horror: A Rambling, Teetering, Crumbling Brief History of Gothic Cinema 5 of Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood” That Need Film …