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.
Mothersucker by Kim Bohyun Review: The Vampire Is the Least of It
Natalie Wall’s Mothersucker review finds Kim Bohyun’s Korean vampire novel using its monster to ask why a society might need one. Part horror crime procedural, part feminist horror novel, this piece of translated Korean horror from Dead Ink Books follows a grieving mother who hunts abusers across decades.





