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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.
Hailey Piper’s Cosmic Horror: This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want
Hailey Piper sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to discuss This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, her second novel steeped in Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow. She talks through the Toad Man, the cursed film at its centre, and why she calls horror the most honest genre. Titan Books publishes the cosmic horror on 15 September 2026.
The Woods by Jessica Hamilton: folk horror makes menopause the monster, mostly on its own terms
Jessica Hamilton’s folk horror debut sends a grieving mother into a haunted wood that offers her family a second life, at a price only she has to pay. A true crime podcast framing device and a bold menopause-as-horror metaphor make this one of the more inventive femgore entries this year, even when it over-explains its own best idea.
Jessica Hamilton on The Woods: And The Monster We Are Scared to Talk About
Jessica Hamilton gives Ginger Nuts of Horror a horror interview on The Woods, her first novel billed outright as horror after two books sold as thrillers. She digs into the femgore wave, her admiration for Marcus Kliewer, and the menopause motif running beneath the supernatural one in this domestic horror novel.
The Rouse by China Miéville Review: A Vast, But Slightly Flawed Reveille
China Miéville returns after fourteen years with The Rouse, a vast work of weird fiction that folds grief, war and necromancy into a single twentieth-century epic. It is a formidable, demanding ghost story, and it rewards patience far more than it courts it. Our four-star review sorts the wonder from the sheer weight of the thing.
Peace Mbengei Interview: We Run the Night and the Luo Night Runners
Peace Mbengei talks through her debut YA horror novel We Run the Night, where Luo night runners turn grief into body horror inside a Kenyan boarding school. She discusses the strangler fig at the story’s centre, the institutional cover up that follows, and why forgiveness, not revenge, sets her heroine free.
