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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 July 2013

July 8, 2013
4 mins to read

Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Terror Before the Talkies: Horror Films of the Silent Era When The Thing Became John Carpenter’s The Thing Rick Hautala’s ‘The Horror…The Horror.’ Six Seedy Horror Films to Blight Your Eyes …

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News Round-up Week Ending 5 July

July 5, 2013
2 mins to read

Invisible Man appears on DVD Classic 70s television series The Invisible Man is released on DVD for the first time on 8 July. Starring David McCallum of The Man from U.N.C.L.E fame, the DVD will feature a full length pilot and twelve episodes. The Invisible Man will be released as a four DVD set. Dark …

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Film Review: World War Z

July 4, 2013
7 mins to read

World War Z is the long awaited, often delayed, zombie opus starring Brad Pitt. Rumours of on-set bust ups, budgetary wrangles and rewritten endings have been dominating the tabloids and genre media for months. The film is a loose adaptation of Max Brook’s novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. The …

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Real writers don’t write about the supernatural

July 3, 2013
9 mins to read

This month’s column topic readily sprang to mind as soon as I heard about it: one of my online author friends (who shall remain nameless) had received an email from some wag who said “I’ve never read your work and I never shall, because you are not a real writer. Real writers don’t write about …