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.
Luna Gray reviews She’s a Doll by Barbara Truelove, a queer supernatural revenge horror about a young woman murdered by her own manners and reborn inside a haunted porcelain doll. It is a story built on consent, class, and rage as a motor function, published by Ezeekat Press. Brutal, morally unsettled, and unwilling to heal anyone.
In Crone, Keith Rosson binds a Pacific Northwest crime noir to a folk horror ghost story, following a grieving ex-detective through a corrupt town toward a witch who has been keeping his missing daughter for thirteen years. It is body-horror addiction, biker-gang rot, and generational violence, held together by prose of frightening control
Gretchen McNeil’s second adult novel drops a former-FBI priest and a stubborn constable on a boat-less Newfoundland island where the locals crave daily Mass. Our five-star review reads We Are For The Dark as religious folk horror that fuses detective fiction, Catholic dread, and a love story into one merciless question.
In Still Lost, Sam A. Miller hands the deadpan of Sam O’Nella Academy a nervous system. His eight linked near-future science fiction stories let a superior alien race fix every human threat, then watch us wreck ourselves anyway. A debut short story collection that runs warmer than Black Mirror and closer to George Saunders.
