Category: Features

Let’s Put An End to This Right Now

September 24, 2014
11 mins to read

I’m going to start this month’s column with a little joke: “A guy walks into a bar with a midget riding a crocodile and a seven foot nun with a ring through her nose. He orders a pint glass full of pickled eggs for the midget, a shot glass full of pork scratchings for the …

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Look Out For… They Do The Same Things Different There by Robert Shearman and A Respite For The Dead by Lucy Taylor

September 23, 2014
5 mins to read

Look Out For… They Do the Same Things Different There: The Best Weird Fantasy of Robert Shearman “Told with a dark wit and in beautifully controlled prose, if you’ve never read any Robert Shearman you’re in for a treat.” Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours—except landlocked …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 September 2014

September 22, 2014
4 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. We search the internet for notable horror articles, so you don’t have to. This week: Summer of Sleaze: Guy Smith’s The Sucking Pit and The Walking Dead Horror: Does Cinema Have the Edge Over TV? The Books Behind Today’s TV Horror Resurgence Tales from the Video Store: The Babysitter Diaries …

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The Cutting Room: Overlook Hotel

September 18, 2014
3 mins to read

In the Cutting Room this week, we’re going to take a look at an upcoming film that might just shine. Overlook Hotel The tragic events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when alcoholic caretaker Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy and his supernaturally gifted son Danny checked in for the winter are well known, but they …