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The Queen of Twists Stops Playing Fair: Jeneva Rose on Sometimes I Scare Myself

The Queen of Twists Stops Playing Fair: Jeneva Rose on Sometimes I Scare Myself

Jeneva Rose steps away from thriller twists for Sometimes I Scare Myself, her first horror short story collection built from three dread soaked novellas. Ginger Nuts of Horror talks to her about Never Kill the Medium, The Nightmare House, All Curses Are Final, and why postpartum horror turned out to be the perfect ground for stories with no reckoning at the end.

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The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night by Joshua Chaplinsky

The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night by Joshua Chaplinsky

Joshua Chaplinsky’s The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night is a surreal, multi-timeline haunted house novel about the ways abuse gets passed down through a family like an heirloom nobody wants. The first third asks more patience than it gives back, but once the Vogel House’s true shape emerges, this becomes one of the more genuinely upsetting horror novels of the year.

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A Brief History of the Haunted House Novel by Joshua Chaplinsky

A Brief History of the Haunted House Novel by Joshua Chaplinsky

Joshua Chaplinsky charts the two hundred and fifty year history of the haunted house novel, from Pliny the Younger’s cursed Athens letter through Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s The Shining and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. It lands as his own contribution to the subgenre, The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night, arrives from CLASH Books.