Category: Features

Happy Halloween 3: The Devil Made ’Em Do It

October 9, 2013
6 mins to read

It’s that time again. My co-favourite holiday always rolls up by surprise, even though we can see it coming from a mile away. There’s something about the blazing hot summer that seems to drag on forever that lulls me into a sun-baked stupor by the time October hits, and it’s tough to shake until …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 October 2013

October 7, 2013
4 mins to read

It’s that time again, folks! We’ve been scouring for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week on Must Read Horror: What Stanley Kubrick Got Wrong About The Shining Face Off: Leprechaun in Space Vs. Jason X 15 French Horror Films You Won’t Forget In A Hurry How Horror Films Continue to …

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Australia’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Tasmania, Land of Convicts and Cannibals

September 30, 2013
7 mins to read

Well, here we are, ready for another round of Haunted Australia. In the past, I’ve covered Victoria (my home) and New South Wales, the site of the first landing when Australia was colonised. As such, you’d expect New South Wales to have the strongest history of hauntings, but you could be wrong. Down below mainland …

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Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

September 30, 2013
9 mins to read

As we saw last month with H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, our baser natures and bestial instincts can never truly be entirely suppressed. Wells implies that we all have the capacity to revert back to more primitive states in certain situations, that we all still unavoidably bear the “mark of the beast” though …