Dani Soncasie, writer of the vampire graphic novel Blood of the Forsaken, picks the horror influences that shaped her. Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, The Lost Boys and Garth Ennis’s Hellblazer each left a mark on the monsters she makes now.
Jim McLeod
Jim "The Don" McLeod has been reading horror for over 35 years and reviewing it for more than 16. He's the editor of Ginger Nuts of Horror, Europe's largest independent horror review and culture site, and a British Fantasy Award nominee for his work in the genre. When he's not busy inflicting his opinions on the horror community, he can be found annoying his family or getting thoroughly outwitted by his two dogs, Casper and Molly.
The Horror of Tripadvisor: Horror Locations Given the Review
Horror film locations make terrible places to stay, so Ginger Nuts of Horror has written the guest reviews they never got, from one star to five. The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, the Bates Motel, Camp Crystal Lake, Amity Island from Jaws and the Slaughtered Lamb from An American Werewolf in London are all rated, with the stars handed out at random. Then comes the real question: why do horror fans keep booking the rooms?
Casper and Molly’s Horror Watchlist: Horror Movies Where the Dog Lives
Horror movies where the dog lives, picked by Casper and Molly, the two dogs on Ginger Nuts of Horror’s strictest review panel. Dog Soldiers, Gremlins, The Lost Boys and Good Boy are approved, while Halloween and The Conjuring are firmly rejected. It also asks why dogs in horror movies so rarely make it to the end.
Unearthed by Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi Review: The Past Wants Paying Back
Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi’s Unearthed sends nineteen writers into tombs, temples and stone circles, and the best of them find that the dig is the scary part. Slatter, Castro and Jiang lead a Titan Books anthology about who owns the past, held back from full marks by one story that needed a content note.
Stephen Graham Jones’s Blackfeet Books: From Revenge to Redemption
Off the Reservation brings Nate Yellow Tail back from The Only Good Indians, with The Buffalo Hunter Hunter standing between them. This feature traces Stephen Graham Jones’s Blackfeet books from an elk hunt to the Marias Massacre to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and shows how Indigenous horror turns revenge into return.