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This Weekend: Watch the SLAY Horror Fest Live at Clinton Street Theater and Online!

Get ready for a screaming good time… the terrifying fun of SLAYโ€”our scary short film fest made by horror lovers like YOUโ€”is showing LIVE AND IN-PERSON THIS WEEKEND October 29 & 30, and is also streaming online Oct 29-31! Earlier this year, we asked filmmakers to send in their homemade short horror films (eight minutes […]

Posted inComedy

Mercury Tales of Horror: Chitter, Chatter… Whatโ€™s the Matter?

Jess Garten [Happy pre-Halloween! All week long the Mercury will be publishing classic tales of local Halloween horror from our archives, as well as brand spankin’ new (and creeeeepy) pieces… this one is from our 2017 special feature “The Tell-Tale Tooth: True Tales of Dental Horror.”โ€”eds] My family had a thing about discarded body parts. […]

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