Category: Features

The Cutting Room: The Visit

April 30, 2015
3 mins to read

The Visit A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a week-long trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple are involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day. Why we’re looking forward to this: The Visit is written …

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Tattered Tomes: Tear My Soul Apart – Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart, Revisted

April 29, 2015
11 mins to read

In 1989, I managed to find a rare paperback of Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart (originally published as Night Visions III: Dark Harvest), edited by George R.R. Martin. Having discovered Ramsey Campbell a few years prior, I was hunting collections of his short stories and hit the jackpot with this paperback. The collection featured Campbell, …

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Look Out For… What Gets Left Behind by Mark West and Finding Poe by Leigh M. Lane

April 28, 2015
4 mins to read

Look Out For… What Gets Left Behind by Mark West “The core of this story is as much emotional as horrific, but don’t be fooled: when the horror does come it is brutally effective.” In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by the Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing. And two boys made a terrifying discovery. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 April 2015

April 27, 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: Evil Eighties: The Killer Kids of Somebody Come and Play Unfriended and Horror’s Long tradition of Fearing New Tech Baddies in Books: Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft’s Tentacled Terror 10 Great South Korean Horror …