What Is Horror? Horror is an ancient art form. For as long as we’ve told stories around a fire, it’s likely a vast majority of those stories have been horror, or at least what we’d call horror today. Tales that terrify were probably used to educate the young in what danger lies ahead, and to …
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Look Out For… Dead Boys by Gabriel Squailia “Dead Boys heralds the arrival of a new and unique voice onto the scene.” A decade dead, Jacob Campbell is a preservationist, providing a kind of taxidermy to keep his clients looking lifelike for as long as the forces of entropy will allow. But in the Land …
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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 Creepy Nursery Rhymes of Elizabeth Engstrom The 20 Greatest Original Horror Scores When Books Live at the Thrilling Intersection of Sci-Fi and Horror How to Make a Good Horror …
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Look Out For… The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth “In The Devil’s Detective, Unsworth gives us his own personal and idiosyncratic version of Hell.” Welcome to hell… …. where skinless demons patrol the lakes and the waves of Limbo wash against the outer walls, while the souls of the Damned float on their surface, …
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News Round-up Week Ending 1 May 2026 Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news…
Look Out For … Filth Eaters by Ito Romo "With his debut novel, ten years in the making, Romo…
The Girl in the Video (First Edition) Will Go Out of… The Girl in the Video first edition will go out…
News Round-up Week Ending 24 April 2026 Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news…
Look Out For … Neon Moon by Grace R. Reynolds "With her debut novella, Reynolds pours a mean mix of…
