Issue 1 of Exquisite Terror

Founded and published by London-based editor and journalist Naila Scargill, Exquisite Terror is a brand new independent periodical that takes a thoughtful, accessible-academic approach to the genre, featuring exclusive art, script analysis and in-depth essays. Naila has harboured a deep-rooted fascination with the horror genre since a young girl, and it has long been a source of frustration to her that our beloved subject is rarely taken seriously as the relevant art form that it is. Having worked as deputy editor on the now defunct Gorezone Magazine, and with increasing frustration witnessed its downward trajectory into tacky, gutter-press levels of salaciousness, Naila needed to sate her appetite for an intelligent and thought-provoking horror magazine that actually focuses on horror.

And thus, Exquisite Terror was born. Issue 1 includes an in-depth essay on actor Donald Sutherland and his career in the 1970s; an interview with Spanish director Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes); ‘How to survive vampirism, according to Bram Stoker and Stephen King’; ‘Analysis of the script behind a classic’; a little something penned by myself on the Saitama Serial Murders of Dog Lovers (the real life story that provided the inspiration for Cold Fish) and the obligatory much, much more…

Support independent publishing and pick up a copy of Exquisite Terror here. 

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