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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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.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s What Feeds Below is a YA horror fantasy that descends into the Void and refuses to let you back up for air. Cave horror, fungal body horror, and a devastating friendship story combine into something genuinely new. Our full review explores what makes this one of 2026’s essential horror reads.
Jeneva Rose steps away from thriller twists for Sometimes I Scare Myself, her first horror short story collection built from three dread soaked novellas. Ginger Nuts of Horror talks to her about Never Kill the Medium, The Nightmare House, All Curses Are Final, and why postpartum horror turned out to be the perfect ground for stories with no reckoning at the end.
Joshua Chaplinsky’s The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night is a surreal, multi-timeline haunted house novel about the ways abuse gets passed down through a family like an heirloom nobody wants. The first third asks more patience than it gives back, but once the Vogel House’s true shape emerges, this becomes one of the more genuinely upsetting horror novels of the year.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne talks cave horror for her new book What Feeds Below. She built the Void’s monsters from cordyceps and deep sea life, with roots in Made in Abyss. She also traces the path from Such Lovely Skin and The Mean Ones to a close, risky friendship built to survive a pit that wants to eat it.
