J.R. Blanes discusses Portraits of Decay, Southern Gothic horror and the New Orleans art community that shaped the novel. He … J.R. Blanes on Portraits of Decay and Southern Gothic HorrorRead more
Scott Hawkins returns with Blacktail, and in this interview for Ginger Nuts of Horror he explains why he still calls … Scott Hawkins Interview: Blacktail and The Library at Mount CharRead more
Penny Lane Is Dead delivers strong practical gore and real tension inside its beach house setting. But Hope Madden finds … Penny Lane Is Dead Review: Home Invasion HorrorRead more
Iseult Murphy turns a widow’s grief into a door that opens both ways. Irish author Iseult Murphy has built a … Gothic Horror Cover Reveal: Iseult Murphy’s Suffer Their GoingRead more
Tony Jones rounds up five new YA horror novels for August 2026. Cynthia Murphy’s Paint Me Like Your Dead Girls … Five New YA Horror Novels: Which Ones Deliver? – The Young Blood Library August Round-UpRead more
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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J.R. Blanes discusses Portraits of Decay, Southern Gothic horror and the New Orleans art community that shaped the novel. He talks voodoo, zombies, creative discovery, setting and the real fear of losing control.
A.J. Malachite’s debut You See It Too turns the choose-your-own-adventure format into a body-horror trap, sending three queer students into a bayou preserve after a will-o’-the-wisp that turns out to have larvae. It is folk horror, eco-horror and Southern Gothic at once, with old money farming the swamp for generations. Four stars for a gamebook that refuses to let you save everyone.
Isabela Livino’s debut An Immaculate Deception traps a pregnant, devout woman in an isolated 1870s Brazilian estate where a family’s bargain with the devil has gone wrong. A Latin American Gothic of vanishing mirrors and disbelieved women, sitting alongside Mexican Gothic and Rosemary’s Baby, held back only by a slow middle third.
A. Rushby follows Slashed Beauties with All Her Beautiful Deaths, a dual-timeline gothic that turns Victorian death photography into a mystery about grief, art and ownership. It is atmospheric, queer and quietly hopeful, held back only by a present-day strand that crowds out its richer 1865 half.
Tananarive Due’s Mazywood turns a child’s wish in 1926 Old Hollywood into a monster that waits fifty years for the family to come home. This creature feature and historical saga is her first novel since the multi-award-winning The Reformatory, and it confirms Gracetown as one of horror’s great haunted maps. A big, ambitious, occasionally overstuffed four-star return.
Warwick Gleeson’s TORMENT BECOMES THEM is an ambitious blend of horror, historical dark fantasy and time travel that asks whether changing history is ever wise. Our review explores the highs, the lows and the pain-based magic system.
Scott Hawkins returns with Blacktail, and in this interview for Ginger Nuts of Horror he explains why he still calls it dark fantasy rather than horror, alongside The Library at Mount Char. He talks through the craft lessons of three unpublished novels, the mechanics of building a villain worth hating, and what he wants a revenge story to leave behind.
The House Always Wins In Horror, Until It Doesn’t Horror has been telling gambling stories longer … The House Always Wins In Horror, Until It Doesn’tRead more
Iseult Murphy turns a widow’s grief into a door that opens both ways. Irish author Iseult … Gothic Horror Cover Reveal: Iseult Murphy’s Suffer Their GoingRead more
J.R. Blanes talks Southern Gothic horror, his devotion to Clive Barker, and the underrated gems that shaped his writing. From Portraits of Decay to Acascreamia, this is essential reading for horror fans.
