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1 week ago

Monsters and madness and men, oh my! The Terror is the unsung treasure of peak television

Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dan Simmons, it chronicles a doomed Royal Navy expedition dispatched to the Arctic in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Under the leadership of Captains Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, manned with 129 crew, set sail from England in 1845. They became locked in pack ice off King William Island in the winter of 1846.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Fright club: eight film-makers who are redefining modern horror

Contemporary horror filmmakers reinvent genre through allegory, historical immersion, internet-age intimacy, microbudget gore, and intense portrayals of extreme devotion.
fromScary Mommy
5 months ago

14 New Scary Books For Fall 2025, From Thrillers To Straight-Up Horror

It's 1765, and there's a terrible plague in Zacatecas. Along with her wealthy merchant parents and her fiancé, Carlos, Alba takes shelter in Carlos' parents' silver mine. There she begins experiencing strange hallucinations, and she has the sense that something new and dangerous is lurking inside of her. Meanwhile, Carlos' cousin Elías is grappling with his own troubled past, and now he's forced into close quarters with Alba, whom he can't help but feel drawn to.
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