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.
Yuvashri Harish’s YA horror novel sends a dutiful Tamil babysitter into a Halloween night overrun by classic monsters and a vengeful dead author. This Kill Your Darlings review finds a YA horror debut for 2026 with sharp things to say about racism and people-pleasing. The middle drags, but the bite is real.
Michael Mulvihill’s Rot Land drags the reader into Rathgar, a town where every resident carries their own strain of decay. This Rot Land review looks at how the novel turns crime, social media and entitlement into political horror with a wicked sense of humour. Our verdict: a hidden gem of a horror novel.
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.
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.
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.
