Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Through a Fractured Lens: German Expressionism Mood Lighting: Five Films to Prime You for The Purge Six Abandoned Asylums With Genuinely Chilling …
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We recently caught up with Peter Tennant, prolific author of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction and regular reviewer for the This Is Horror Magazine of the Year, Black Static. You are a horror aficionado, where did your love for the genre stem from? As a child, horror was in the air that I breathed, and …
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In the first of a new regular feature, we take a look at modern phobias that infiltrate our modern lives. Fears can be rational or irrational, but if someone suffers from one, they can be paralysed by it to the point that it can affect their adult existence. In extreme cases, it can stop people …
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There are many so-called ‘sayings’ that enrage me. Those irritating platitudes that people trot out in place of actually saying something intelligent or thinking before they speak. “Less is more” is one of them. Try saying that to a recent amputee, then count your teeth. One of the main ‘sayings’ that raises my blood pressure …
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Over the last couple of years one of my great rediscovered pleasures has been the horror film festival. I used to go to quite a few but the pressures of time, work and a general lack of someone to go with meant that for many years I had been absent from the festival circuit. Because …
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Hello. Today The Bloodstained Balcony is taking the form of a public service announcement. Its purpose? To warn horror fans of the perils of truly terrible horror cinema, a subgenre that has been known to cause misery, disappointment, depression, and in some cases a general sense of self-loathing and stupidity at having sat through the …
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“All kids have stories and fears about monsters” Award-winning visual and makeup effects artists Freddy Chavez Olmos and Shervin Shoghian’s (District 9, Watchmen, The Dark Knight) are co-directing and producing a sinister fairytale inspired by Guillermo del Toro. Based on a story they penned with Michael Stasyna, Shhh follows Guillermo (Sean Kyer), who overcomes his …
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“The Cenobites’ exploration of the outer limits of pleasure and pain attains something of the transcendent and numinous.” Aside from books, there’s one thing that’s usually a major influence on writers of horror – film. This shouldn’t come as any surprise – books, despite being composed solely of words printed on pages, are, just like …
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What first attracted you to horror writing? Story telling and imagination were close at hand in my youth. I loved old time spooky radio shows, and the illustrated Eerie and Creepy magazines, and The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits, all of which in some form or other embodied short stories. But as to how …
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What first attracted you to horror writing? For what it’s worth, I don’t describe my work as horror—not because I don’t have great affection for much of what the genre encompasses, but because, to quote Robert Frost, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” When I sit down to write, I honour no fences, …
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