Category: Features

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

August 6, 2015
10 mins to read

The lovely yet haunted Mayday Hills Asylum in Beechworth, Australia, looms over the township like a vulture, waiting for someone to die. In days past, it never had long to wait. Once a centre of misery and death, it now hosts businesses and contributes to the township’s tourism attraction. One of the events situated within …

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Tattered Tomes: If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub

August 3, 2015
11 mins to read

Evil is what we call the force we can discover when we send our minds as far as they can go: when the mind crumbles before something bigger, harder than itself, unknowable and hostile. –If You Could See Me Now, page 285. Infatuated with his cousin Alison Greening, Miles Teagarden jumps at the chance to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 August 2015

August 3, 2015
2 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: Horror Movies: How Big Has Their Impact Really Been? The Lonesome Death of Pop Culture Icon Pinhead The Great Horror Debate with Jeff Burk and Robin Bougie Horror in Miniature: Five Terrifying …

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The Cutting Room – Body

July 30, 2015
2 mins to read

An idyllic Christmas holiday turns deadly when best friends Holly, Cali and Mel break into a local mansion they believe to be unoccupied. They quickly realize that they’re not alone in the house, however, and in a moment of panic become embroiled in a grisly murder. The three girls self-destruct as they try and figure …