Alma Katsu’s Incarnate is a Dorian Gray retelling for the deepfake age, and this Incarnate review finds it her sharpest novel yet. A lonely effects artist builds the perfect influencer, then accepts help from a stranger who wants something back. Fast, smart techno horror from Titan Books that earns all five stars.
Nick Medina leaves Louisiana for the northern woods in Savage Lake, a dual timeline horror novel about a mother, her horror-mad son and a family lake with a long memory. My Savage Lake review explains why this Indigenous horror novel from Berkley, mixing cabin in the woods horror with Anishinaabe lore, is the best book Medina has written.
Horror review clichés get translated into plain English in this Halloween week dictionary from Ginger Nuts of Horror. From slow burn horror and elevated horror to the final girl, folk horror and the jump scare, every entry explains what reviewers actually mean. It also asks why horror book reviews and film reviews talk in code at all.
Hide well, trust nobody and keep something heavy within reach. Dani Soncasie Is Stuck in a … Dani Soncasie Is Stuck in a Horror FranchiseRead more
Polis Loizou is back on the road with I Was A Teenage Bisexual, a one-person horror show that turns the old myths about bisexual people into a creature feature. Part vintage horror satire and part teen flick, this piece of queer horror theatre heads to Nottingham, Sale and Wolverhampton after a week in London.
The Witch Elm author Sally-Anne Martyn traces her folk horror roots to a Derbyshire village of corn dollies, well dressings and gala weeks. She revisits The Wicker Man, the Nine Ladies stone circle and a Bakewell witch trial, and explains why Peak District folklore runs through everything she writes.
Michael Mizov talks about The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor, his debut gothic horror novel from Three Dragons Press, and the Yorkshire house at its heart. He explains how Lottie Bradbury was built one question at a time, why the book lost its first title, and why people sure they are right frighten him more than monsters.
Weldon Burge talks Enter Vengeance, the paranormal police procedural that sets Detective Rex Justison and psychic Alicia Masters against Tisiphone, a Fury who calls ahead. In this Weldon Burge interview he explains why the dread comes down a phone line, what Harvester of Sorrow taught him about juggling points of view, and why vengeance satisfies on the page when justice fails.
