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Who doesn't love a good horror story? Authors like Stephen King have made a very nice living by scaring readers and moviegoers out of their wits. Horror, in fact, has one of the most avidly devoted fanbases you'll find anywhere on the blogosphere.

Horror also covers a surprisingly wide spectrum of styles, ranging from creepy, psychological thrillers to all-out splatterfests where little, if anything, is left to the imagination in the way of guts and gore.

In the seventies, the horror bar was significantly raised with the release of The Exorcist, a film which covered demonic possession so graphically that many parents forbade their children to see the film. By the late seventies and early eighties, horror had spawned a new sub-genre of "slasher" films like the Halloween and Friday The 13th series, which featured maniacal killers picking off young sex-crazed teenagers one by one.

The Nightmare On Elm Street series took this to a borderline comical level with the introduction of Freddie Krueger and his knife-wielding gloved fingertips. More recently, films like Saw and Hostel have upped the gore factor to such a degree some critics have labeled them as "torture-porn."

On the blogosphere, you'll find horror fans at sites like the Horror Blog and Horrors Not Dead.

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  • Parasyte Vol 7 by Hitoshi Iwaaki Manga Review


    Manga Maniac Cafe — Authority Authority: 126
    Title: Parasyte Vol 7 Author: Hitoshi Iwaaki Publisher:  Del Rey ISBN: 9780345500359 May Contain Spoilers This volume demonstrated that there really isn’t much difference between the alien monsters and the humans that they are feeding on.  When overzealous Lieutenant Commander Yamagishi concocts a ...
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  • Friday The 13th (2009)


    Download Free Movies — Authority Authority: 137
    Source: DvDRip Runtime: 106 min (extended edition) Language: English Rapid-Size: 410 MB Torrent-Size: 700 MB Rapidshare download links: http://rapidshare.com/files/310122649/Friday.The.13th.2009.720p.x264.WareztheGFX.com.part1.rar ...
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  • Pandorum (2009) DVDRip XviD - DoNE


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    INFO http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/ Download Links http://rapidshare.com/files/310333805/pandorum-done.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/310335826/pandorum-done.part2.rar read more
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  • Review Time!!! :o)


    BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority Authority: 146
          A few weeks ago Amy from Fair Haven Health sent my husband and I some things to try. I got the FertileCM and Hubby got the FertilAid for Men. This going to be a review on the FertileCM. Hubby’s review on the FertilAid for Men because he only started taking it last week. He was out of town when we received ...
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  • Hit and Run (2009)


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    Source: DvDRip Runtime: 84 min Language: English Rapid-Size: 202 MB Torrent-Size: 700 MB Rapidshare download links: http://rapidshare.com/files/268081013/Hit.And.Run.2009_DGN_CW.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/268080621/Hit.And.Run.2009_DGN_CW.part2.rar Password: DGN Note: If the ...
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  • Twilight New Moon Shatters Single-Day Record with $72.7 Million


    BeyondHollywood.com | Movie News, Reviews, and Opinions — Authority Authority: 539
    I’d like to say I’m surprised by this, but honestly, I’m not. Not after my niece told me she had bought two tickets to see “Twilight: New Moon” on Friday in back-to-back screenings. Let me say that again: she pre-ordered tickets to see the same movie, on the same night, back-to-back. Now multiply my niece by ...
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  • 100 women writers of horror and supernatural fiction: Part 1


    Reading in the dark — Authority Authority: 128
    100+ works of horror and supernatural fiction by women writers 1. Clara Reeve The Old English Baron (1777) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5182 2. Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3268 3. Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818) http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/ 4. Jane ...
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  • Wolverine: Weapon X #7 – Review


    Weekly Comic Book Review — Authority Authority: 436
    by Jason Aaron (writer), Yanick Paquette (pencils), Michel Lacombe (inks), Nathan Fairbairn (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Dr. Rot attempts to release the animal inside Logan. What’s Good: Last month’s issue was fantastic and this month is basically just more of a good thing.  Aaron’s ...
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  • A list of 100 women writers of horror and supernatural fiction


    Reading in the dark — Authority Authority: 128
    Ive been working on this project to create a list of 100 women writers of horror and supernatural fiction, which has already climbed to something more approximating 110. The first 50 or so are listed in basically historical order, from the gothics of the late 1700s to the works of the early 1990s, with the second part ...
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  • Saboteur has gone gold


    GamingAngels — Authority Authority: 540
    Saboteur Pandemic sent word yesterday that the Saboteur has officially gone “Gold” on all three platforms (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC). This is great news in the face of what went on over at Pandemic Studios earlier in the week. The Saboteur will be available in Europe starting December 4 and North ...
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  • PON DE GRAVE!


    Mishka Bloglin — Authority Authority: 583
    The weekend isn’t over yet. Just sayin’. Major Lazer knows this.
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  • Samurai Princess 2009 DVDRip XviD-CoWRY


    Video Music and Gamez — Authority Authority: 151
    Samurai Princess 2009 DVDRip XviD-CoWRY | 698.07 MB iMBD Rating: 5.3/10 46 votes Genre: Action | Horror Video: XviD, 608 x 336, ~918 Kbps Audio: MP3, ~256 Kbps Runtime: 82 Min Language: Japanese Subtitle: English Samurai.Princess.2009.DVDRip.XviD-CoWRY Download Hotfile ...
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  • Skinner: Howling Legion-Marcus Pelegrimas


    The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews — Authority Authority: 151
    Skinner: Howling Legion Marcus Pelegrimas Eos, Nov 2009, $7.99 ISBN: 9780061463068   Cole was a video games designer at the top of his profession when he realized that creatures of myth and legend are real.  There is a secret society that has fought the evil denizen of the dark especially vampires, who go by ...
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  • Night of The Demons


    Cinemaroll — Authority Authority: 137
    One of the more interesting movies at the 2009 Frightfest was Night Of The Demons, a remake of the classic 80’s horror movie directed this time round by Adam Gierasch, who wrote the script for Dario Argento’s Mother Of Tears. I say interesting because while it was fairly generic horror that had moved on little ...
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  • 2010 Portland Vampire Masquerade Ball


    Eternal Vigilance — Authority Authority: 132
    Announcements concerning the 8th annual Portland Vampire Masquerade Ball were made this week. The event will take place on the weekend of Saturday, March 27th 2010 at the elegant Melody Ballroom in Portland, Oregon. Other details included in the announcement were as follows:• New website is still under development ...
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  • Best Movies of 2009 – Zombieland


    47 Movies — Authority Authority: 158
    In my ongoing feature of the best movies of 2009 I look at the horror comedy Zombieland. Read on to see if this gruesome laughfest can take the title of best film of the year. Continue reading here: Best Movies of 2009 – Zombieland
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  • Who do you think Crap and Tax will benefit?


    InvestmentWatch — Authority Authority: 451
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  • Amityville: The Paranormal Goes Pop


    The Contrarian — Authority Authority: 134
    In earlier posts, I have discussed the competitive nature of the paranormal world.  For all the griping, all the University of New Mexico Women’s Soccer-esque hair-pulling and back-punching, let us all remember where we come from and how we got here.  Let’s take a look at one of the first times the paranormal ...
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  • This vampire geek is pleased…


    Eternal Vigilance — Authority Authority: 132
    Trubies, have you heard the news? DC Direct is coming out with a series of True Blood collectible mini-busts next year!! CLICK HERE to read more about them! They are gorgeous! Bookmark to:Hide Sites$$(div.d3453).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(slide_up,{duration:0.5}) });
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  • The Donner Party Opens at the Porta Vallarta Film Festival


    28 Days Later: An Analysis — Authority Authority: 138
    The Donner Party will show at the Porta Vallarta Film Festival beginning December 2nd and run until December 4th. A film that tackles the real life story of the Donner Party and cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada, The Donner Party stars Crispin Glover (Beowulf), William Foster, and Clayne Crawford. The full synopsis ...
    8 hours ago

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