Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas and Split Tongues by Kristi DeMeester

  • January 12, 2016

  • 4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas “The Last Weekend is a typically riotous and inventive mix of the undead, dystopian fiction and paranoid conspiracy.” Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt refugee, failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished “driller” of reanimated corpses. …

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RIP Angus Scrimm. Long Live The Tall Man

  • January 11, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

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Angus Scrimm 1926 – 2016 Lawrence Rory Guy, also known as Angus Scrimm, and best known for this work in the cult classic Phantasm films by Don Coscarelli, passed away January 9, 2016. He was 89 years old, and still very active in the film and horror communities. Born in Kansas in 1926, the American …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 January 2016

  • January 11, 2016

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, and a whole new year of great articles hand-picked for your reading pleasure from the internet. This week: The Geopolitics of Horror: Natalie Dormer and The Forest The Martyrdom of “HALLOWEEN RETURNS”: Why Dimension’s Loss is Michael Myers’ Gain Waxwork Records Underline Resurgence in Horror Comics Celebrating 21st Century Horror: …

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News Round-up Week Ending 8 January 2016

  • January 8, 2016

  • 7 mins to read

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… TNT To Revive Tales From The Crypt With M. Night Shyamalan Great news for fans of the classic HBO anthology series Tales From The Crypt as TNT in the USA have announced that they are looking …

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