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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 February 2021

February 1, 2021
4 mins to read

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: Mother Horror picks out eight terrifying translated tales for LitReactor Gemma Amor writes for Horrified Magazine on the female experience of fear Kendall Reviews present the first chapter of …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 January 2021

January 29, 2021
5 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Coming 9 March from writer A. G. Slatter and Titan Books, All the Murmuring Bones, available for pre-order now Miren O’Malley was orphaned as a young child and brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling …

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Look Out For … The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

January 28, 2021
3 mins to read

“With her latest, Whiteley takes on our fascination with fame and celebrities, and the terrible price we pay when we’re forced to reinvent ourselves.” Rose Allington suffers from a very strange disease, an illness in which she sheds her skin. These sheds occur quickly, and ultimately change everything about her, who she loves, and trusts. …

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Book Review: The Gulp by Alan Baxter

January 28, 2021
9 mins to read

“Baxter has crafted the literary equivalent of a Venus flytrap and, by the time we feel the descent towards our own doom, the trap is already closing, and we are perfectly poised for the next volume of tales from The Gulp.” As Alan Baxter has himself said, he is yet to meet a genre he …