Ginger Nuts of Horror has been reviewing horror books for 18 years. Here you will find reviews of new horror novels, novellas and short story collections, from small indie presses to the big imprints, across folk horror, gothic, cosmic, psychological horror and everything in between. Every review is free, independent and honest.
Adam McOmber sends a disgraced Manchester tutor to a shifting Cornish manor in this queer vampire novel, and the result is a tender, frightening gothic. Our review weighs the vampire romance, the haunted house and the red maze of the final act. A Lethe Press horror release that earns four and a half stars.
Natalie Wall’s Mothersucker review finds Kim Bohyun’s Korean vampire novel using its monster to ask why a society might need one. Part horror crime procedural, part feminist horror novel, this piece of translated Korean horror from Dead Ink Books follows a grieving mother who hunts abusers across decades.
Maxie Dara’s third grim reaper mystery sends a dead thief into the body of an elderly grim reaper and then into one last job. This A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Living Twice review weighs a warm, funny supernatural heist novel against a middle stretch that loses its pace. A strong cosy paranormal mystery, and the boldest book in the series so far.
Bill Wood closes the Let’s Split Up trilogy by sending the Sanera Four to Chillshore, a frozen island theme park that sells its own dark past. This One Last Scare review explains why the YA slasher novel is the darkest and best of the three, and how Wood turns Scream meets Scooby-Doo into a sharp look at the true crime trade.
Jacob Steven Mohr’s Samanthas sends a teenage essay writer after a missing swimmer and three new girls who share one name. This horror novella blends hard-boiled teen noir with sad, strange body horror, plus three bonus stories that widen its world. Read the full Samanthas review on Ginger Nuts of Horror.
