Category: Features

Midnight Mix-Tape: February 2017- When the Women Come Out to Dance

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  Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. February …

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Look Out For … Ararat by Christopher Golden

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Look Out For … Ararat by Christopher Golden “Who are we to argue with the King of horror and deny ourselves a story of snowbound slaughter?” Meryam and Adam take risks for a living. But neither is prepared for what lies in the legendary heights of Mount Ararat, Turkey. First to reach a massive cave …

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Tattered Tomes: Into Dragon Valley–Koko by Peter Straub, Revisited

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I came by Peter Straub’s Koko first by mass market paperback. I remember distinctly not reading it when it first released in 1988, mainly because I was a junior in college and my studies and a steady girlfriend kept me wrapped up tight. I was in love and behind the eight-ball, so I couldn’t be …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 January 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:   Things are getting strange south of the border: The new wave of Mexican horror Fifteen years on, Donnie Darko universe to be revisited Zak Bagan’s Haunted Museum to feature …

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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez

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Look Out For … The Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez “Her fiction is that pulse-racingly superb, that electric and original.” A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son …

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Voices in the Night: My Favorite Audiobooks of 2016

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As someone who has spent their entire adult life driving through the nights along the freeways and interstates of Southern California, I long ago realized that I would rapidly go insane and murder everyone I came into contact with if I was left with only the Top 40 radio stations or the AM blowhards to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 January 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: The Case For Digitally Resurrecting Horror Actors Actress Joanne Mitchell Answers Ten Scary Questions Interview With Author Amber Fallon Horror Films Made Into Musicals Milla Jovovich Recaps Resident Evil …

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Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Gemma Files

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When it comes to writers that are pushing the envelope of what horror and weird fiction can accomplish, Gemma Files is one name that people mention on a regular basis. Writer, screenwriter, film critic, Files has her fingers in nearly every aspect of the writing life. Two of her scripts were produced for episodes of …

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Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda

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Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda “Think Hellraiser colliding with the Illuminati.” Drawing on decades of experience, author and historian Peter Levenda turns to the novel as the best and perhaps only way to tell a story that has to be told – that hidden within the tales of America’s most …

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The 2017 State of the Horror Address

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Horror lovers thrive on fear. There’s something about the tension, the building suspense, the big reveal of the monster in the final scenes. We crave it, even if we’re reading with all the lights on, or watching the movie from behind our fingers covering our eyes. The stories we read fill our minds with vivid …

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