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Max Doty Interview: Domestic Horror in The House That Eats the Dead

Max Doty Interview: Domestic Horror in The House That Eats the Dead

Max Doty talks about The House That Eats the Dead, the domestic horror novel that began life as a NoSleep horror series and won the community’s Best Series award for 2023. He explains why the hungry house is a scavenger rather than a villain, how Save the Cat shaped his outlining, and how far Claire will go to protect her family. A horror author interview about houses, ownership, and the things we quietly agree to forget.

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Saint Delilah by Isabelle Spotts, A Ghost Story With Teeth.

Saint Delilah by Isabelle Spotts, A Ghost Story With Teeth.

Isabelle Spotts’s Saint Delilah is a ghost story that refuses to be gentle. This feminist supernatural suspense novel follows Delilah, a murdered nineteen-year-old who becomes a ghost and, with the help of a medium and a man who can see the dead, hunts her killer. Evil entities threaten to consume her soul. It is a revenge narrative, a thriller, and a meditation on grief and justice. The dead don’t forget. Neither will you. Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror.

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Son of Sara Review: Houston Bone’s Sly Satanic Pregnancy Horror

Son of Sara Review: Houston Bone’s Sly Satanic Pregnancy Horror

Son of Sara takes the well worn Satanic pregnancy formula and finds fresh life in it, thanks to Houston Bone’s patient direction and a cast who make even familiar scenes land. Chloe Van Landschoot and Tymika Tafari sell the relationship at its centre, and the film’s quiet change in theme upends the expected ending. An indie horror film that spends its small budget wisely and gets you out in under ninety minutes.

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Re-run of the Repressed  (or why every franchise monster you’ve ever loved ends up as a dog on a leash …) by Philip A. Suggars

Re-run of the Repressed  (or why every franchise monster you’ve ever loved ends up as a dog on a leash …) by  Philip A. Suggars

Philip A. Suggars charts the four phase decline of horror franchise monsters, from the pure terror of Alien: Earth and Michael Myers to the merch shelf and the leash. Drawing on Freud, Robin Wood, and Mark Fisher, he asks why The Thing and It Follows stay frightening while everything else gets a Funko Pop. The domestication of horror monsters, it turns out, is exactly what the culture industry does best.