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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 July 2015

July 20, 2015
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Where to Start with the Works of Peter Straub Revisiting Danse Macabre by Richard Chizmar The State of Horror Video Games in 2015 HP Lovecraft and HR Giger: How Their Dreams Became …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 July

July 17, 2015
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R.I.P. Tom Piccirilli It is with great sadness that This Is Horror reports the passing of horror author Tom Piccirilli. The multiple Stoker award winning novelist, short story writer and poet passed away earlier this week at the age of just fifty years old. The thoughts of the staff at This Is Horror are with …

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The Cutting Room: The Confession of Fred Krueger

July 16, 2015
2 mins to read

The world knows of the legacy of child killer Freddy Krueger thanks to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequels of varying quality, but every story has a beginning and now we’re being taken back to the time of the original crimes to see what turned Frederick Charles Kruger into the Springwood …

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Injured Eyeballs: Who the Fuck is Michael McDowell? Part 1

July 15, 2015
17 mins to read

You remember those kids at school, who were into whatever band you were into before you, before anyone in fact? Who would roll their eyes at you when you mentioned the band, as if the simple fact of you being into them meant they weren’t worth being into anymore, because you were so behind the …