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"Snuff in Six Scenes" by Richard Kadrey

3.5 stars

Biting humor when a serial killer tapes a willing victim.

"Insanity Among Pengions" by Brian Hodge

4 stars

Movie buffs get a chance to see Werner Herzog's lost film, long thought no more than a legend.

"The One We Tell Bad Children" by Laird Barron

4 stars

Part haunted-film story, part fairy tale. And...Gregory Peck is in it?

"Night of the Living" by Paul Cornell

3 stars

Showing a cult horror film at a matinee for old people. Bad idea.

"Family" by Lisa Morton

3 stars

What if the family drama you directed was haunted by ghosts? Would it be a horror movie then?

"Scream Queen" by Nathan Ballingrud

4.5 stars

Pretty sure Ballingrud is my favorite author of short horror fiction.

"Exhalation #10" by A.C. Wise

4 stars

I love a good "We found a mysterious tape/video/book" story.

"Drunk Physics" by Kelley Armstrong

3.5 stars

Ghostly science livestreams

"Das Gesicht" by Dale Bailey-4 stars

Love and war tie a starlet and two men together in a destructive spiral that ends in a transformative art film.