This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …
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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!” When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …
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Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …
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