Between The Cold War and the Third

  • November 23, 2015

  • 6 mins to read

I was born in 1974; as a result, I was one of the last generation to grow up under a very particular fear: the fear of World War Three. It was the Cold War. The US and the Soviet Union each wielded enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on Earth many times over. In …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 November 2015

  • November 23, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: The Short-Lived Comic Book Publisher That Helped Give Birth to the Zombie Craze Back to Derry: An Oral History of ‘Stephen King’s It’ Revisiting Christine by Richard Chizmar Primer: The Work of …

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NaNoWriMo: No No Wri Mo

  • November 20, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

National Novel Writing Month is upon us once more, and I have thoughts on that. Firstly, there’s the knee-jerk, irritable me response: “Oh good, yet more word count boasting on Twitter.” You know the sort of thing – This morning I wrote 2000 words, went for a run and then wrote 2000 more. #amwriting. And …

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The Cutting Room: Fear The Walking Dead

  • November 19, 2015

  • 2 mins to read

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in Los Angeles, a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt …

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