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Whether you're a new fan or have read all his novels, grab a copy and get tangled up in Growing Things by Paul Tremblay.
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A scary and shocking coming of middle age story!
It's back to school time and your favorite horror magazine is hitting the books!
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In the increasingly fast-paced world of horror sometimes it’s really nice to bathe in a simple and pastoral story. The intensity of fast zombies, flying chainsaws, and hyper-speed ghouls has a time and place, but it’s also a nice bit of calm when the characters and the story unfold in a relaxed and less apocalyptic way.
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Do you like scary movies? Find out WHY in Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
When at a comic convention, you've got to talk comics! The last of our Wizard World interviews is with Ben Goldsmith, author of the just released horror comic The Seance Room from Source Point Press. This was a fun interview!
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Adam Nevill's The Ritual is as scary as its film counterpart.
★★ out of ★★★★★ By Brian Kirk I am not really sure where to start with Will Haunt You the...
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ By Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer is the story of Korede, an organized, highly...
You’ll howl at the moon with laughter as you read Carnivorous Lunar Activities!
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Equal parts Stand By Me, Stranger Things, and Hellraiser, the Shelter of the Damned presents a pretty dark look at adolescence and the lengths that kids will go to to get out of school.
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ By Catriona Ward Way back in April (it’s almost October!) I was given an advance reader...
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Demonic possession is no match for the housewives of Whispering Farms!
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Written by Gemma Files
"It is always midday somewhere in the world...both day and night."
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The rise of the podcast generation paired with a nation’s emerging fascination with rampant conspiracy theories is the perfect backdrop for a horrifying and mercurial folk tale. In both the case of podcasts and conspiracies people don’t stop until they’ve reached the ever-loving bottom of the barrel. The problem is these barrels have no bottoms.
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The haunted house story is a tried and true horror trope, but what if the house was not only haunted by the ghosts of the past, but by shadowy figures from the future, too? That's exactly what appears to be happening in the crumbling mansion at the center of this story.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Monstrous body horror meets a fantasy hero’s tale in this Medieval England tale of stubborn honor,...
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The Kaiju Preservation Society: ★★★★
Gil's All Fright Diner: ★★★1/2
Are you at home networking while listening to audiobooks? Do you have a long drive in front of you, and you need something to keep you occupied on your journey? Looking for something light and fun and horror-tinged, but not so graphic as to make you want to run from the room and pee your pants? Here are three fun listens available on Audible for some amusing monstrous titles.
In order to celebrate our friend David's starring turn in The Suicide Squad, for which he has been receiving numerous accolades, we revisit our initial meeting with him at Portland's Rose City Comicon from 2019. He was a treat, and you can learn about his Comic writing career in addition to his acting performances. Congratulations, David!
In what has to be considered Mike and Eric's favorite interview, actor and newly minted comic book author David Dastmalchian sat down with us at Rose City Comicon. We got to talk all things horror, and especially his new comic Count Crowley! Muuahahahaha!
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Creepy kids, glimpses into other dimensions and the dangers of too much sugar- that's the taste of Sour Candy!
A Haunted Big-Box furniture retail outlet, some assembly required.
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When a starving man arrives on a remote island where a scout troop is on their annual expedition, it sets loose a horrific body destroying parasite. The plague spreads, and the island is quarantined. These boys are in a world of hurt. This is Stand By Me meets Shivers by way of the Thing.
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Cosmic Horror served two ways in the same book. John Langan's Bram Stoker Award winning novel The Fisherman serves a unique nested story structure to deliver the tale of how two widowed men deal with grief and loss by fishing, but are being drawn into literally hellish decisions.
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A determined novel that spans multiple time frames and plumb near covers every last aspect horror genre -- except for UFOs and Bigfoot. That might sound like a stretch, but it ain’t. There’s witches. There’s ghouls. There’s 1970s grindhouse lore. There’s the conventions and their inevitable fan-boy hangers on. There’s even true crime podcasters. This book covers it all. Maybe that’s a good thing and maybe it’s not.
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Heavy subject. Breezy presentation. That’s really the brilliance of Clay McLeod Chapman. The ability to pick apart a heady emotional construct in a way that’s engaging, insightful, and most of all frightening!
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The perfect metaphor/antidote to 2020. Well-meaning people set out to change the world, lessen their foot print, and revel in their own brainy viewpoint. Only to be horrifically outdone by the unplanned mysteries of mother nature and her largely uncaring and brutish ways. Devolution is exists in a very real space with very real consequences. It's everything that 2020 has offered. From the hopefully earnest to the horrifically primal.
OK, horror fans, do you remember your first scary picture book? I bet you do! And I bet that book set you up to be a genre fan in the long run. Here are eight iconic spooky children's picture books.
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Follow Penpal author Dathan Auerbach on a harrowing search for Eric in his latest novel, Bad Man.
An epic prank goes way off the rails in the upcoming novella, Night of the Mannequins.
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HP Lovecraft dug writing short stories. Edgar Allen Poe did too. Even the great Stephen King has been known to clack out a short story or two (hundred). Most horror writers have the keen ability to take a simple concept and extemporarily expound the idea in fairly concise and confined was. Sometimes this works and sometimes there’s a lot of questions begged and a lot more exposition that’s required.