Category: Features

Power and influence (warner Hannibal spoilers inside)

  • July 3, 2014

  • 7 mins to read

He puts his head back and closes his eyes, the final image of a fugitive Hannibal closes the second season of the namesake show, and what a powerful image to go out on. It demonstrates many major themes played out during the 13 episode arc that picked up with Will Graham wrongfully imprisoned and framed …

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Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick and Ceremony Of Flies by Kate Jonez

  • July 1, 2014

  • 5 mins to read
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Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick “ A mixture of old school episodic storytelling and modern techniques reminiscent of found-footage films.” “There’s a place, out in North Wales, where things have happened. Bad things, strange things. Dark things. At the heart of it there’s a mountain, and they call it Mynydd Du: Black …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 June 2014

  • June 30, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: A Brief History of Canadian Horror on Film The Art-Horror Film: Genius or Pretentious? 8-Bit Terror: Nintendo’s Horror Games That Inspired a Thriving Subgenre Love Horror’s Six Greatest Givers of Gore What …

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Less is More: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

  • June 26, 2014

  • 8 mins to read

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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