Mario Guslandi reviews Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Vol 18, the latest annual from Night Shade Books. This horror anthology review covers her survey of the year in print and six stories he especially enjoyed, by Benjamin Percy, Robert Shearman, Vanessa Santos, Helen Grant, CR Kiernan and AC Wise.
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Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
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Mario Guslandi reviews Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Vol 18, the latest annual from Night Shade Books. This horror anthology review covers her survey of the year in print and six stories he especially enjoyed, by Benjamin Percy, Robert Shearman, Vanessa Santos, Helen Grant, CR Kiernan and AC Wise.
Our Screams and Wails review covers a music horror anthology from The Slab Press, with eighteen original metal horror stories that range from riot grrl to Bowie. RJ Barker’s Feedback and J.L. Worrad’s Orlando Road are the peaks, while a few repeated bargains and a long back half keep it short of perfect.
Nat Cassidy’s Nestlings sends two exhausted new parents into a grand Manhattan building that wants their baby. This apartment horror novel blends vampire horror with motherhood horror, disability and Jewish identity, and it earns its Rosemary’s Baby comparisons. Only a last act that explains too much holds it back.
Savita Kalhan talks about The Lost Name Society, her YA folk horror novel written as S R Krish, in which five teenagers face deadly games at a gothic boarding school. This horror author interview covers dark academia, gargoyles, a cut final chapter and why leaving terror unwritten can make teen horror books more frightening.
