Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror/Sources

WP:HORROR/S

This is an overview of sources that can be used for horror-related articles.

A source does not need to have its own article to be deemed reliable and having an article is not always an indication of reliability.

Search all online reliable secondary sources for horror.

Resources

Archive websites help prevent link rot.

Reliable sources

Reliable independent sources support claims and establish notability per

publishing houses have editors and are thus considered reliable in general. For an overview of mainstream online sources considered reliable on Wikipedia see Wikipedia:Reliable sources

and its derivative pages.

Horror or pop culture sites and publications deemed reliable

Bloody Disgusting, online here
Dread Central, online here
Cinefantastique, online here
Fangoria, online here
Shock Till You Drop, online here

Rue Morgue, online here
JoBlo, online here

iHorror, online here
Den of Geek, online here
Ginger Nuts of Horror, online here
HorrorNews.net, online here
Daily Dead, online here
Culture Crypt, online here
Horror Society, online here
PopHorror, online here
The Geekiary, online here

Reliable authors who may self-publish (print or online)

Kim Newman
Tom Holland, online here

Unproven sources

Unproven sources are those which have not yet been examined by the project. They can not be used to establish notability.

Crypt Teaze, has editorial oversight
CineGore, Hungarian site, can't make out exactly what is said but seems to be split off from a magazine
All Horror, does not have an "about page" but seems to have staff

Official websites

Many films, TV series, or other works have their own official websites, these can be reliable for claims about production and release dates, etc, but do not help establish notability.

Examples for works

Halloweenmovies.com for the Halloween franchise
F13game.com for Friday the 13th: The Game

Examples for persons

Stephenking.com for author Stephen King

Databases

Databses are collections of information from other places, databases can be reliable in cases like Box Office Mojo and The Numbers or they can be unreliable like IMDb. Databases in general are not good for establishing notability. Databases are often fit to be external links on articles.

Unreliable sources

These sources have been deemed unreliable per the project, they should rarely if ever be used. They can not establishing notability.

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