Category: Features

The Cutting Room: The Confession of Fred Krueger

July 16, 2015
2 mins to read

The world knows of the legacy of child killer Freddy Krueger thanks to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequels of varying quality, but every story has a beginning and now we’re being taken back to the time of the original crimes to see what turned Frederick Charles Kruger into the Springwood …

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Injured Eyeballs: Who the Fuck is Michael McDowell? Part 1

July 15, 2015
17 mins to read

You remember those kids at school, who were into whatever band you were into before you, before anyone in fact? Who would roll their eyes at you when you mentioned the band, as if the simple fact of you being into them meant they weren’t worth being into anymore, because you were so behind the …

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Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner and I Know Who Did It by Steve Mosby

July 14, 2015
4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner “You can never tell what is going to happen in a Cate Gardner story.” You’re not the first to talk to your dead here, the vagrant said. The living always chase after their dead until they come upon their own. Formed from shadow and dust, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 July 2015

July 13, 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: The H Word: The Politics of Horror How Do Horror Video Games Work, and Why Do People Play Them? The Evolution of the Slasher Film ‘Day Of The Dead’: George Romero’s Gruesome …