Brides In the Dark Review: Jacob Steven Mohr’s horror novella blends Gothic dark fairy tale and harpy lore into a tense fable of hidden truths.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Temptation of Charlotte North Review: Camilla Bruce’s Dark Gothic Triumph
Camilla Bruce’s The Temptation of Charlotte North is a dark gothic fantasy that understands atmosphere is not decoration but a character with its own pulse. Set on a remote island in 1910, the novel follows Charlotte North, a rebellious young woman who discovers that a violent spirit released from an ancient tower might be the leverage she needs to escape a predetermined life. With three carefully woven points of view and prose that balances elegance with restraint, Bruce has written her most confident, unnerving novel yet.
YA Science Fiction Horror Books: Top Picks for Teens
YA science fiction horror sits at the crossroads of dread and discovery. These aren’t just scary stories for teenagers. They’re nightmares wearing spacesuits.
I’ll Watch Your Baby by Neena Viel: Is a Must-Read
Neena Viel’s second novel, I’ll Watch Your Baby, follows two timelines, Lottie Turner’s 1974 Chicago schemes and Bless’s 1994 robbery gone terrifyingly wrong, through a Southern Gothic haunted house that has earned every one of its ghosts. A socially sharp, historically grounded Black horror novel with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review, it is one of the most significant releases of 2026. This is our full review.
New Writings in Horror and Supernatural Vol III Review: Stephen Jones Revives a Classic
Stephen Jones doesn’t just edit a horror anthology; he curates a conversation between generations of dark fiction writers, and Volume III continues that vital tradition.
The Other by Annie Neugebauer Review: Doppelganger Horror Done Right
The fear isn’t the monster under the bed. It’s the face in the mirror that looks back a moment too long.
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD T. WILSON
Some authors spend years perfecting the art of the jump scare. They study the rhythm of suspense, the geometry of the dark, the precise moment a door should creak. Richard T. Wilson has spent forty‑odd years doing something harder. He has helped teenagers feel seen.
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Review: When Wasps Promise Salvation
“A dark teenage family drama for children which bleeds into an unsettling dream world”
Made for the Dark by John Llewellyn Probert Review: A Guided Tour Through Horror’s Twilight Zone
Probert’s voice operates like a genial host leading you through a darkened gallery, each story a new exhibit where the strange and the terrifying are presented with a wink that never quite conceals the sharp teeth behind it.
Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir: Icelandic Horror at Its Most Ferocious
The feminist horror thriller Reykjavík is built on blood and friendship. Two women in Reykjavík. One black cat. One abusive man who doesn’t understand what he’s walking into. Knútsdóttir’s Dead Weight is ferocious, intimate, and lit from the inside with a fury that feels entirely earned. Feminist horror at its … Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir: Icelandic Horror at Its Most FerociousRead more
Trad Wife by Sarah Langan: A Feminist Horror Novel for 2026
Read the full review to find out why Trad Wife is Sarah Langan’s best work to date, how it sits within the current wave of literary horror, and why its central argument about bodily autonomy, influencer culture, and the ancient horror of the controlled life is one the genre has been building toward for decades.
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Nordic Folk Horror Done Right
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Tale of Sýstir announces itself in its opening pages as something different from the usual Nordic-flavoured fantasy. This is folk horror rooted in genuine Huldra mythology, the figure from Scandinavian folklore whose name derives from the Old Norse huldr, meaning “covered” or “secret.” When Sýstir’s mother is accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, Summers is not using the witch trial as backdrop decoration. She is placing her story inside a specific, historical horror that resonates because it never entirely stopped being present. Sýstir, half-human and half-Huldra, escapes into the Dark Forest known as Trollheim, taken in by the rogue troll Agagkantor and accompanied by a wildcat companion named Fulgir, building a found family from the materials of loss and displacement.
Ronald Malfi’s The Hive Review: A 750-Page Nightmare of Conformity and Cosmic Dread
You know the feeling of coming home to find everything slightly wrong. The couch pulled three inches left. A photograph tilted. Nothing you can name, but your body knows. That’s Ronald Malfi’s temperature with The Hive (Titan Books, April 14, 2026). This 768-page small town horror novel set in Mariner’s Cove, Maryland, builds dread like rust on a locked gate. After a strange storm scatters ordinary junk across the neighbourhood, the residents develop an obsessive attachment to their discoveries. A door. Coat hangers. A tricycle wheel. They lie for these objects. They kill for them. And ten-year-old Cory McBride, newly awakened to strange psychic powers, is the only one who sees the hive mind forming. Malfi spent twelve years wrestling this story into shape. The result is his most ambitious work yet: cosmic horror grounded in the domestic, where the real terror isn’t the monster but the coat hanger in your closet. Read the full review.
A Parade of Horribles Review: Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8
Horror that fights back. The abyss flinches.
Femme Feral Review: Sam Beckbessinger’s Feminist Werewolf Novel
Some horror novels make you check under the bed. Sam Beckbessinger’s Femme Feral makes you check your own reflection for teeth. This feminist body horror novel about a queer photographer’s lycanthropic liberation is a howl of feminine rage you won’t forget.