The crone has been part of horror since long before cinema existed, from Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken legs to the witch under the oven in Hansel and Gretel. This feature traces her through the European witch trials, hagsploitation cinema and films like Relic and She Will, and lands on Keith Rosson’s new … The Crone in Horror: Witches, Folklore and Keith Rosson’s CroneRead more
Book Reviews
Honest, in-depth reviews of new horror novels, collections and novellas, from the big releases to the small presses and indie voices you won't find anywhere else.
Film Reviews
Reviews of new horror films in cinemas, on streaming and on the festival circuit, from the blockbusters to the micro-budget gems worth hunting down.
Interviews
Conversations with the writers and filmmakers shaping horror today: what drives their work, where the dread comes from, and the stories behind the stories.
Features
Long reads on why horror matters, from genre histories and deep dives into classics to our personal My Life in Horror, What's On Shudder essays and Fright Club lists.
The Young Blood Library
Round-ups, age-by-age reading lists and reviews written with young readers, for parents, teachers and librarians looking for the right scare.
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.
Horror Promotion on The Ginger Nuts of Horror Website Hey folks, The Ginger Nuts of Horror … Horror Promotion on The Ginger Nuts of Horror WebsiteRead more
The crone has been part of horror since long before cinema existed, from Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken legs to the witch under the oven in Hansel and Gretel. This feature traces her through the European witch trials, hagsploitation cinema and films like Relic and She Will, and lands on Keith Rosson’s new novel Crone.
In this A. Rushby interview, the author of All Her Beautiful Deaths talks Victorian death photography, the ethics of looking at other people’s grief and why her sentient Culpepper House wishes its family well. She also explains why, after the darker Slashed Beauties, she wanted a feminist gothic full of yearning, and names the YA horror novel that gave her nightmares.
Phil Keeling’s debut horror short story collection moves from the fall of Babel to a low country monster hunt and a wounded angel in a root cellar. Our Be Not Afraid review finds religious horror with teeth, dark humour and Southern weird fiction at its sharpest. This is a self-published horror book that earns every one of its five stars.
Hervé Commère’s YA thriller comes as twenty-one sealed letters, one to tear open each day, as a young man in London races to save the sister who vanished ten years ago. This 21 Days of Fear review looks at how the advent calendar format turns waiting itself into fear. A five star epistolary thriller built for December.
Jennifer Thorne’s werewolf horror novel sends a grieving carer into an empty country mansion for a weekend of trespass, and the owners come home hungry. My Newbourne Park review looks at the siege, the seduction that follows, and why this class horror novel is the best thing the Diavola author has written.
Yuvashri Harish’s YA horror novel sends a dutiful Tamil babysitter into a Halloween night overrun by classic monsters and a vengeful dead author. This Kill Your Darlings review finds a YA horror debut for 2026 with sharp things to say about racism and people-pleasing. The middle drags, but the bite is real.
In this Tracy Fahey interview, the Irish author talks about Queens of the Crone Age, where the Cailleach listens to women’s stories, and Down We Go Together, her first book of crime and noir stories. She explains why she rewrote an ending to take the answer away and where her female body horror comes from. She also says why contemporary horror film keeps flattening the Hag into a villain, and what Irish folk horror can do instead.
Nikias Chryssos turns an elite tennis academy into a gory, darkly funny sports horror in Bloody Tennis, now on Shudder. Hope Madden finds a strong lead in Sandra Guldberg Kampp and a gleefully committed Elina Löwensohn. This Suspiria-inspired horror has plenty of blood, but not quite enough mystery to linger.
