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Tag: Horror
A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft
At the NecronomiCon revelers danced to murder ballads and celebrated all things weird. They even found time to reckon with the writer’s racism. Read more
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Hollywood finally comes calling for horror writer Paul Tremblay
“Knock at the Cabin,” a new film by director M. Night Shyamalan, is the first film adaptation of one of Paul Tremblay’s horror novels. It is set to be released in February. Read more
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Trans author ‘burns JK Rowling alive’ in horror novel based on killing ‘radical feminists’
The novel is described on Amazon as “a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror”. Read more
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Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West
Stories about the American West have always been rife with scares and horrors sure to delight and repulse even the most hardened of horror fans, from pulpy matinee fare like Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula to literary classics like Blood Meridian, but by taking what works and leaving what doesn’t, writers today are riding into the sunset with some of the most breathtaking and terrifying fiction in recent memory. Read more
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“Jawbone” by Mónica Ojeda
Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear. Read more
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In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo
For more than 30 years, Britain’s Kim Newman has been producing thoroughly entertaining, startlingly original fiction. He has remained something of a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but that situation could — and should — change with the publication of his immersive new horror thriller, “Something More Than Night.” Read more
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Gothic becomes Latin America’s go-to genre as writers turn to the dark side
The region used to be almost synonymous with magic realism but recent bestselling fiction draws on a legacy of dictatorship, poverty and sinister folklore. Read more
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The 12 scariest books we’ve ever read
Horror is a cathartic genre, a place where we can explore our deepest anxieties and traumas, relive our worst nightmares and purge ourselves of the nagging fears that could otherwise overwhelm our psyches. Plus, it’s more fun and cheaper than therapy. Read more
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LaKeith Stanfield will star in the new adaptation of Victor LaValle’s The Changeling
Apple TV+ today confirmed that not only has The Changeling—a fantastical urban horror drama based on Victor LaValle’s best-selling 2017 book of the same name—been given a series order, but that LaKeith Stanfield has been cast as the lead. The star of Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You, and Judas and the Black Messiah (for which he was Oscar nominated) seems (to me at least) the perfect choice to play Apollo Kagwa, a ruminative rare book dealer and anxious new father whose wife commits a terrible and incomprehensible act of violence before disappearing into the night, prompting Apollo to embark on a dangerous odyssey through New York’s supernatural underworld in an attempt to confront the supernatural evil that has torn his family apart. Read more
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