<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">LOCKDOWN LIT Welcome to the very first edition of Penny Dreadful: The Isolation, where I&rsquo;ll be recommending zero theatrical releases. Don&rsquo;t fear, shut-ins, I come armed with free stuff to keep your brain occupied during these wrong-kind-of-terrifying times. First off, stories. Use your spare time to catch up on some horror shorts &ndash; there&rsquo;s plenty of gold available online, gratis. Here are a few classics and newer tales I highly recommend. 1. &ldquo;The Yellow Wallpaper&rdquo; by Charlotte Gilman Perkins (bit. ly/yellwall), a lyrical feminist story about a woman gaslit by her husband, shut in a room, who sees a mysterious woman in her wallpaper. 2. &ldquo;Raphael&rdquo; by Stephen Graham Jones (bit. ly/raphstory). This troubling story about kids trying to scare themselves ends in tragedy in unexpected ways. 3. &ldquo;Swim Wants To Know If It&rsquo;s As Bad As Swim Thinks It Is&rdquo; by one of my favourite authors, Paul Tremblay (bit.ly/swimtrem). This story from his Growing Things anthology is a sad, weird tale about an addict trying to protect her daughter from an incoming apocalypse. 4. &ldquo;The Lottery&rdquo; by Shirley Jackson (bit.ly/lotteryshirl): a super-influential must-read, by a master of horror. If you&rsquo;ve read it already, read it again.AMERICAN HORROR STORY In light of the lockdown, Universal and Jason Blum have released The Invisible Man and The Hunt to streaming way early. The Invisible Man is excellent and The Hunt is worth a watch too. It has, however, been very divisive. Not quite what I expected, at heart it&rsquo;s a political polemic which wants to suggest that the left and the right in America are as bad as each other, with our protagonist (Glow&rsquo;s Betty Gilpin) a blank slate with no clear affiliation. I liked the thrills, the gore and the performances. More of a problem is the assumption that bigots, racists, homophobes and gun-nuts are on a par with PC lefties who are triggered by everything, because, in the film, they&rsquo;re mass-murderous arseholes. One of those things is real and the other is not. Both can be watched now on Sky, Amazon, NowTV and so on.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">SHUT-IN SHUDDERS Horror streaming service Shudder has extended its free trial to 30 days: just use the code SHUTIN. There&rsquo;s a lot of good stuff to gnaw on, from classics like Hellraiser, The Changeling and The Hills Have Eyes to more recent gems like Issa L&oacute;pez&rsquo;s gorgeous, brutal fantasy Tigers Are Not Afraid, psychedelic FrightFest hit Bliss, and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead&rsquo;s Linklater-meetsLovecraft romance Spring. You&rsquo;ll also find some originals here, including the new iteration of Creepshow. Well worth the no pounds you&rsquo;ll spend exploring it for a month.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">FRESH FLESH An absolute treat coming your way at some point soon is A Little More Flesh, the second feature from Sam Ashurst. It&rsquo;s an experimental low-budget horror that uses its limited means to its advantage. A black comedy satire with a dark heart, it revolves around a DVD commentary recorded by a &rsquo;70s director for a re-release (voiced by Ashurst himself ) which tells the story of a troubled and possibly haunted production. It has its fair share of chills, but mostly this is a sharp comedy of Weinstein-era abuse and male entitlement.

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