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Summer Coven Review: A Queer Cosy Mystery With a Corpse in It
Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor return to Trident Falls in Summer Coven, the second Dead & Breakfast paranormal cozy mystery. Two married vampire innkeepers investigate a poisoned pet psychic, a coven of witches, and a missing person. A queer, funny, warm-hearted whodunit for anyone who wants their vampires kind.
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They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara! E.F. Schraeder is Reflecting on Childhood Fears
E.F. Schraeder looks back at a 1980s Midwestern girlhood where the ordinary was the frightening part and the undead were a relief. The essay traces childhood fears through slasher films, the satanic panic and goth subculture, and explains exactly what job folk horror had to do. From the author of The Case for Cryptids.
The Horror of My Life: Yuvashri Harish on Kill Your Darlings and YA Horror
Yuvashri Harish takes the Ginger Nuts of Horror questionnaire ahead of her YA horror novel Kill Your Darlings. She talks Goosebumps, Carrie, and the one viewing of The Exorcist she has never managed to repeat. She also names the classic horror monsters behind her Halloween novel, and explains why her next book is cannibalism soulmate horror.
Summer Coven: Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor Defang the Vampire
Summer Coven brings Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor’s married vampire detectives back to Trident Falls for a second cozy paranormal mystery, this time knotted up with the Celestine Coven and a poisoned pet psychic. In our Dead & Breakfast interview, the pair explain what it costs to make horror’s oldest monster cosy, and where the fear goes when nobody is scared of the vampire any more.
Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman: The Horrormance That Makes Love Look Like an Infestation
Clay McLeod Chapman’s Devil Inside is a horrormance in the fullest sense: a demonic possession horror novel that treats its love story with total seriousness and is all the more frightening for it. Jordan died for two and a half minutes. Lilith has never had a body of her own. Our five star review of one of the boldest horror romance books of 2026.
The Yeti Review: A Practical FX Creature Feature Worth A Look
The Yeti drops a 1947 search party into the Alaska Territory and hands them a practical FX creature feature with a proper cast. Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta nail the 40s B movie tone, and Wayne Anderson’s creature design gives the beast real weight. The script, sadly, needed a couple more drafts.
Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the Horrormance
A dead man, a demon, and the happily ever after that damns everyone else. Clay McLeod … Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the HorrormanceRead more
Big Baby Review: Spider One’s Horror Screenwriter Nightmare
Spider One’s Big Baby casts Brandon Lewis as a horror screenwriter who cannot stop listening to the podcast telling him to die. Krsy Fox supplies the film’s genuine tension, and the crying baby mask supplies the axe. Our horror film review looks at why the story inside Adam’s script leaves the whole thing curiously unsatisfying.
Where the Roaches Are by CC Adams: Horror Collection Review
CC Adams returns with Where the Roaches Are, a horror short story collection set in a hospital where the real damage is social rather than supernatural. Echoes of Nigel Kneale, Mark Morris and Roald Dahl run through a book built to disquiet rather than terrify. Read the stories in the order Adams gives you, because the order is doing work.
The Role of Folklore in Modern Horror Games
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Chum Review: Jonathan Zuck’s AI Shark Sinks a Clever Idea
onathan Zuck’s Chum strands a wedding party off Malta between a great white shark and a fisherman with a grudge, played by Jim Klock. It is a shark attack horror with a climate change conscience and a fatal reliance on AI visual effects. Alice Eve commits, the Maltese location dazzles, and the film still goes under.
A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves
Kim Bo-young takes Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth and relocates it to a quarantined Korean fishing village in A Plagued Sea, her first horror novella in English. Translated by Sophie Bowman for Tor Nightfire, it turns cosmic horror into a pandemic elegy about grief, guilt and the people we cannot protect. Our five-star review explains why this hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling lingers.
The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen – A Masterclass in Artistic Horror
Kailee Pedersen’s The Minimalist is a gruelling, unflinching psychological horror novel about a composer’s descent into madness. Published by St. Martin’s Press, it follows Mia Voss as she returns to her mentor’s Santa Fe mansion to complete his unfinished masterpiece, only to find the manuscript exerting a disturbing hold over her. Drawing from Pedersen’s own experiences as an adoptee and classical musician, this is body horror at its most intelligent—a meditation on artistic obsession, adoption trauma, and the sacrifices we make in pursuit of creative perfection.
The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty: A Hungrier Haunted House
Tor Nightfire’s August 2026 debut from Max Doty reinvents the haunted house novel with no ghost at all, only a property that eats the dead and unmakes the record of them. Our review digs into the complicity horror at its core, the class and money threaded underneath, and why this domestic horror lingers long after the last page.
Meat and Concrete: Soma, Body Horror and Urban Decay
The rotten city and the unreliable body are the same complaint, and very few novels admit it. Ahead of Lee Glenwright’s SOMA, a feature mapping British estate horror from Ramsey Campbell and Joel Lane to Gary McMahon and Alison Rumfitt, the body horror line from Clive Barker to Agustina Bazterrica, and the overlap almost nobody works.