Category: Features

Game of Thrones: Where ‘Supernatural’ Rarely Means ‘Horror’

  • May 28, 2014

  • 6 mins to read

DISCLAIMER: This piece contains minor spoilers since it is near-impossible to discuss GoT without including specifics. Be warned! CAVEAT: I am a great fan of GoT and anticipate it being aired each week; even so, this article addresses an element of the show that has irked since Season One. There is, I’ll admit, something unsettling …

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Look Out For… Dark Entries by Robert Aickman and Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

  • May 27, 2014

  • 7 mins to read

Dark Entries by Robert Aickman “A very eccentric, British version of Kafka!“ Aickman’s stories are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark Entries …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 May 2014

  • May 26, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we collect the five best horror articles of the week, put them in no particular order, and then expect you to read them. This week: Why Today’s Best Horror Films Come From Australia Must See Horror Films of the 1970s – Part Two HR Giger: Against the Gigeresque Is …

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Look Out For… Reaping The Dark by Gary McMahon and The Three by Sarah Lotz  

  • May 20, 2014

  • 4 mins to read

Reaping The Dark by Gary McMahon “What would happen if James Sallis wrote a Dennis Wheatley story?”  A streetwise getaway driver… A drug raid that ends in bloodshed… A violent criminal hell-bent on revenge… A secret order of occultists… And something summoned from the darkest depths of nightmare. Who will survive this long, dark night, …

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