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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.
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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!
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A scary and shocking coming of middle age story!
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Demonic possession is no match for the housewives of Whispering Farms!
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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.
A domestic thriller takes a very sinister turn to Sundial.
John Darneille invites readers to move into the Devil House.
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ By Catriona Ward Way back in April (it’s almost October!) I was given an advance reader […]
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Is there anyone more qualified to tell the emotional tale of a mother and son relationship beset by ghostly visuals and a murderous mystery? If there is please tell us because as far as we’re concerned Stephen King is still sitting a top horror hill and there’s not anyone out there that will ever reach this pinnacle.
Grady Hendrix has tackled many horror tropes in his novels: a gateway to hell, possession and exorcism, selling your soul for rock and roll and vampires. In his latest book he takes on perhaps the most well known trope of the genre- the Final Girl.
★★★★ 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.
Need a little art therapy in 2020?Alan Robert has you covered with The Beauty of Horror Coloring Book Series
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ It’s been known throughout the human experience that the journey is far more rewarding than the end point. For mountain climbers the peak is only the halfway point. Few endeavors have one introspectively looking solely at the terminus. For horror fans the end often isn’t entirely satisfying and the nostalgia for a film (or book) lies in the way the spooks and chills unfold along the way. Ian Reid’s 2016 novel, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is the pure embodiment of this sentiment.
Prepare for a beat down with Ugly As Sin!
“Do you have to be dead first? Or will it break you open while you’re still alive?”
★★ out of ★★★★★ By Brian Kirk I am not really sure where to start with Will Haunt You the […]
Return to the creepy town of Skillute in The Worst is Yet to Come
Dive into a submerged piece of Hollywood Monster movie history with The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
You’ll howl at the moon with laughter as you read Carnivorous Lunar Activities!
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Follow Penpal author Dathan Auerbach on a harrowing search for Eric in his latest novel, Bad Man.
It’s back to school time and your favorite horror magazine is hitting the books!
Prepare for thrills, chills, tales of terror and a growing “to be read” list with “Click if you Dare: 100 Favorite Horror Stories” written by Petra Mayer
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“We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t. And neither did I.”
