Category: Features

Searchlight: John E. Douglas

Fans of serial killer fiction will instantly recognize the name Jack Crawford. Head of the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Agent Crawford sent Will Graham off on the hunt for Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, and let Clarice Starling pick Hannibal Lecter’s mind in Silence of the Lambs. Thomas Harris based Crawford’s character on his …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 Oct 2017

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Rob Zombie’s Halloween – What Worked And What Didn’t Jennifer Tilly Talks Cult Of Chucky Max Landis Talks American Werewolf Remake New Gremlins Poster Loaded With Horror Easter Eggs …

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Halloween Small Press Spotlight

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October. A time of growing darkness. Summer is dying and in its wake the nights begin to lengthen, the breezes begin to chill, and the foliage begins its bright colorful demise before our very eyes. It’s a time for horror, and what a better way to get your fix than opening a good book or …

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Look Out For … Ghosts of Christmas Past by Various Authors

Look Out For … Ghosts of Christmas Past by Various Authors “Curl up with a compendium of chilling Yuletide tales.” A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night …

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Searchlight: Disasterpeace

Richard Vreeland is a 31-year-old American composer who most people know as Disasterpeace. If you’re not familiar with the name Disasterpeace, then you may be familiar with the David Robert Mitchell film It Follows (2015). And if you’ve never heard of the film, then I’ve got some explaining to do. It Follows is a social …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 Oct 2017

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Women in Horror Talk Wes Craven’s New Nightmare     Interview With Gerald’s Game Actors Carla Gugino And Bruce Greenwood  Burger King Hijacks German IT Screening Bruce Campbell’s Favourite Horror Films …

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Look Out For … Purgatory Hotel by Anne-Marie Ormsby

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Look Out For … Purgatory Hotel by Anne-Marie Ormsby “There’s something morbidly appealing about a whodunit set in a rotting hotel.” Dakota Crow has been murdered, her body dumped in a lonely part of the woods, and nobody knows but her and her killer. Stranded in Purgatory, a rotting hotel on the edge of forever, …

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Searchlight: H.R. Giger

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Hans Rudolf ‘Ruedi’ Giger, commonly known as H.R. Giger, certainly doesn’t need an introduction. Considered one of the most influential artists ever, his work has launched millions of nightmares over the past fifty years. Originally studying industrial design, Giger suffered from night-terrors so intense he was compelled to paint them on a canvas. Though he …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 Oct 2017

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: How the Child’s Play Franchise Went Wrong, and Then Right Again     Appreciating Alice Cooper Five Minutes With Marjorie Kaye 10 Things You May Not Know About Michael Myers There’s …

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Tattered Tomes: Peter Straub’s Shadowland, Revisited

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It was the cover more than anything else. And as much as we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, you have to admit the original paperback cover for Shadowland was grand. As many times as I saw it on the rack at the library, I didn’t get around to reading Shadowland until …

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