The Thrill Factor: Why Our Brains Crave Fear, Suspense, and Risk Picture yourself sitting in a dark movie theater. The soundtrack grows quieter, the main character approaches a mysterious door, and you instinctively grip your seat. Your heart races as you anticipate something terrifying. When the inevitable jump scare arrives, you scream, laugh, … The Thrill Factor: Why Our Brains Crave Fear, Suspense, and RiskRead more
Book Reviews
Honest, in-depth reviews of new horror novels, collections and novellas, from the big releases to the small presses and indie voices you won't find anywhere else.
Film Reviews
Reviews of new horror films in cinemas, on streaming and on the festival circuit, from the blockbusters to the micro-budget gems worth hunting down.
Interviews
Conversations with the writers and filmmakers shaping horror today: what drives their work, where the dread comes from, and the stories behind the stories.
Features
Long reads on why horror matters, from genre histories and deep dives into classics to our personal My Life in Horror, What's On Shudder essays and Fright Club lists.
The Young Blood Library
Round-ups, age-by-age reading lists and reviews written with young readers, for parents, teachers and librarians looking for the right scare.
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.
Horror Promotion on The Ginger Nuts of Horror Website Hey folks, The Ginger Nuts of Horror … Horror Promotion on The Ginger Nuts of Horror WebsiteRead more
The Thrill Factor: Why Our Brains Crave Fear, Suspense, and Risk Picture yourself sitting in a … The Thrill Factor: Why Our Brains Crave Fear, Suspense, and RiskRead more
By Callum R. | Former odds compiler turned iGaming writer, 6 years tracking live markets. Tested … Rising-Number Dread: Why It Beats a Jump Scare Every TimeRead more
By Rowan T. | Horror culture writer and slots hobbyist, covering genre crossover for six years. … V/H/S/Mixtape & the Dread Design of Space SlotsRead more
The Zombie Bike Parade Festival rides through Davis, California, on Halloween Day 2026, a short hop from where the first zombie walk shuffled out in 2001. This feature traces how a failed Guinness bid became a free Halloween festival that has funded 42 adaptive trikes through NorCal Trykers, and why the zombie, of all monsters, belongs on a bike.
Mathilda Zeller expands her Never Whistle at Night story into a five-star Indigenous horror novel about the kushtuka, a creature that wears the faces of the people you love. Set in an Inupiat village as a mine moves in and the winter dark closes, this is Alaskan folk horror with real anger in its bones.
Desirée de Fez’s debut novel follows a mother and two daughters who can’t stand to be apart, until Christmas Eve in a shopping centre splits them open. Our Don’t Leave Her Alone review explains why this Spanish body horror novel, translated by Lizzie Davis, deserves a place on every horror shelf this autumn. Motherhood body horror fans should clear a space on the shelf.
All six books on the British Fantasy Awards 2026 shortlist for Best Horror Novel, ranked ahead of FantasyCon in Glasgow. Stephen Graham Jones, Dan Howarth, Grady Hendrix, MK Hardy, Kat Dunn and Gretchen Felker-Martin are all in the running for the August Derleth Award. Here is where each one lands, and why.
Kit Whitfield’s What’s On Shudder column puts Lizzie Borden films on trial, from Lizzie on Shudder to The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 and Lizzie Borden Took An Ax. Then she turns to Angela Carter’s Lizzie Borden, told in The Fall River Axe Murders and Lizzie’s Tiger, to ask why nobody can quite pin this woman down.
S.H. Cooper’s horror short story collection gives ten dead voices the last word, from a cursed maiden in a cave to a drowned girl and her alligator guardian. My Death in Its Many Forms review looks at the revenge horror, ghost stories about grief and quiet craft that make this self-published horror collection a five-star read.
