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Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions
By Fiona Sturges
The League of Gentlemen and Inside No 9 co-creator has always displayed a sense of gothic unease, and his new book combines myth, memoir – and his own disquieting drawings
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💌 Kathryn finds a note under her apartment door. Mason Thompson's name is written on the outside, but the message inside is for her.
It's signed by Dillion, her husband who died seventeen months ago.
Then Kathryn finds a missed call from Dillion's number.
She doesn't know Mason, so why is his name on the note?
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‘everyone around here has a Sasquatch story’: S.E Reid talks scary movies, Halloween and ghosts.
Ghosts, Bigfoot and scary movies. I grabbed author and editor S.E Reid recently and asked her about ghosts, Halloween, scary movies and local legends....
Went to by Books of Blood Vol. 1 audiobook only to realize that I've already bought at some time in the past and can listen to it whenever I want.
🩸 Wulf returns to Dun Hodda to find the town overrun and his family among the dead.
Centuries later, Tower Heights is built on the same ground.
By then, Dun Hodda should be nothing more than history.
But what began there hasn't finished yet.
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🦇 The roulette wheel stopped years ago.
Something is still turning it.
Nightmare Narratives — twelve short horror stories.
Ready for Halloween?.
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There are places where the silence feels deliberate.
You walk in. You look around. Nothing seems wrong.
Then you realize the silence started when you arrived.
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‘Come into me!’: Possession, Consent and Courage in The Exorcist.
Possession as we know it seldom involves consent... or does it? If you think of The Conjuring, or Evil Dead, something is unleashed and takes possession of the victims, whether they know they invited it or not. It's actually the start of plenty of good horror stories....
http://hannadelaneyauthor.com/author-notes/possession-and-consent-in-religious-horror/
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🎪 Sarah's mum promised the fair wouldn't come back. Neither would he. Then the coloured lights appear beyond Sarah's curtains again, and this time her friends can see them too.
They dare her to take them there. Sarah agrees, even though she knows exactly what happened the last time...
Read J. S. Collyer's He Returns in Dark Descent 2026.
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🌑 Nobody who hears the whistling at the ravine is supposed to survive. Rebekah thinks it's just another local story, so she heads there alone before midnight to prove it.
She has her phone ready as she walks onto the old bridge. Then the whistling starts...
Tasarla Romaney's The Whistle won July's Reader's Choice.
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🛗 Apparently The 13th Floor isn't doing much for people's trust in lifts.
“Hair-raising, fast-paced” and “will make you think twice before stepping into an elevator.” — Bodger, The StoryGraph
We can't really ask for a more appropriate side effect from a horror book. 😈
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