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Memphis Depay – a leader who drives his team forward
Memphis Depay – a leader who drives his team forward Among the seasoned players in modern … Memphis Depay – a leader who drives his team forwardRead more
Lullabies for the Lost by Mia Dalia, Review
Mia Dalia’s Lullabies for the Lost brings musical horror to the Black Shuck Shadows list, with four short bursts leading into the novella Discordant. The shorts remix familiar devil child and cosmic horror ideas, while the novella channels Don DeLillo by way of Faust. A fun horror short story collection, though the novella is already sold on its own.
American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams: Historical Horror of 1919 and the NAACP Spy Who Passed for White
Kelly McWilliams makes her adult debut with a historical horror novel about a white-passing NAACP spy investigating lynchings during the Red Summer of 1919. Our five-star review looks at how American Nightmare refuses catharsis, and why that refusal makes it the strongest Black horror fiction of the year. Out from Crown on 15 September 2026.
Final Girls Ranked by How Long They’d Last in a Wetherspoons Car Park at 2am
A comic ranking of horror’s greatest final girls by how long each would survive a Wetherspoons car park at 2am. From Sally Hardesty to Laurie Strode, Sidney Prescott, Ellen Ripley, and champion Erin Harson, we test the slasher survivors against British closing time.
Feed Review: Marco van Belle’s, Dearg Due Vampire Never Quite Bites
Marco van Belle’s Feed finally puts the Dearg Due, Ireland’s first vampire, on screen in a handsome indie horror. Grace Collender and Charlotte Bradley bring real texture, yet the film keeps slipping into familiar cabin territory instead of its own mythology. Our full review weighs a fresh premise against safe execution.
Something Sour in the Sweet Shop: Horror’s Long Affair With Candy
Something Sour in the Sweet Shop: Horror’s Long Affair With Candy Horror is meant to live … Something Sour in the Sweet Shop: Horror’s Long Affair With CandyRead more
Lionhearts by Dan Howarth Review: Horror With an Axe to Grind
Dan Howarth follows Last Night of Freedom with Lionhearts, a political horror novel about grief curdling into hate somewhere Northern and thoroughly let down. Our Lionhearts book review looks at Henry Oswald, the staccato prose, and an ending that turns a depressed landscape florid, charged and brutal. Bring paracetamol.
Hellcat Film Review: Brock Bodell Traps You in an Airstream
Brock Bodell’s Hellcat straps Dakota Gorman into a moving Airstream and lets Todd Terry talk at her for 91 minutes. Hope Madden reviews a single location horror thriller that mines its premise well before the third act gets contrived. Lean, mean and effective, hokey practical FX and all.
Blacktail by Scott Hawkins Review: A Wolf, a Sleeping God and the End of Human Exceptionalism
Scott Hawkins ends an eleven year wait with Blacktail, a folk horror revenge novel told entirely by animals, in which a grieving half-breed wolf sets out to wake a sleeping Forest God and finish off the human race. Our review looks at the language of the Hunt, the squirrel death cult of Car, and why this eco-horror odyssey earns every one of its five stars.
Why Shark Horror Works So Well — And Four Of The Best Shark Movies
Why Shark Horror Works So Well — And Four Of The Best Shark Movies There are … Why Shark Horror Works So Well — And Four Of The Best Shark MoviesRead more
Mongolian Athletes on the International Level: Which Sports Can Generate the Next Superstars?
Mongolian Athletes on the International Level: Which Sports Can Generate the Next Superstars? Mongolia is proud … Mongolian Athletes on the International Level: Which Sports Can Generate the Next Superstars?Read more
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.