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Ginger Nuts of Horror is Europe's largest independent horror review and culture site. We review horror novels and films from the big releases to the small presses, talk to the writers and filmmakers behind them, and publish essays on why the genre still gets under our skin. Every review is free, independent and never paid for.

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Trust No Angel: J. Todd Kingrea on Only Angels Have Blue Eyes

Trust No Angel: J. Todd Kingrea on Only Angels Have Blue Eyes

In this J. Todd Kingrea interview, the Virginia pastor and indie horror author talks about Only Angels Have Blue Eyes, a cult horror novel drawn from a true crime case. He explains building a cult leader’s theology from scratch and timing his heroine’s slow awakening, plus self-published horror, psychological horror without the gore, and the dying town of Black Rock in With A Blighted Touch.

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Wearing the Enemy’s Face: Kelly McWilliams on American Nightmare

Wearing the Enemy’s Face: Kelly McWilliams on American Nightmare

Kelly McWilliams talks to Ginger Nuts of Horror about American Nightmare, her Black horror novel built from Walter F. White’s real history as a NAACP spy during the Red Summer of 1919. She explains why the book, unlike her debut Mirror Girls, refuses any monster a reader could kill, and how the Atlanta Race Riot and racial passing shaped its uncanny, rule-less dread.