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.
Henry Corrigan’s Party of a Lifetime strands four queer friends in Monotony, a 1950s hell town that reshapes itself around their nightmares and slowly reshapes them too. This is body horror written with a mechanic’s patience, with a narcissistic mother at the centre of it, and it is the best thing Corrigan has written.
Neil Williamson turns the family bequest into the scariest thing you own. Some objects come with … Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You InheritRead more
Juliet Blackwell’s The Séance Garden is a paranormal mystery that builds its horror through accumulated unease rather than cheap shocks. Set in Monterey and centred on a skeptical historian of the occult, this Gothic-tinged supernatural suspense novel asks what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.
Bram Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste delivers a haunting queer horror retelling of The Great Gatsby in In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts, following Daisy Buchanan’s daughter as she confronts her mother’s ghost and the still-grasping fingers of Jay Gatsby. This sapphic Gothic novella explores grief, legacy, and the hunger of a house that feeds on unfulfilled love.
The Undiscovered Country delivers horror noir thrills as Adam Paradise, Frankenstein’s creature turned PI, battles Ku Klux Klan necromancy in 1930s New Orleans. Teel James Glenn crafts a supernatural thriller that examines humanity’s capacity for organised hatred while celebrating compassion as the ultimate act of heroism.
