Horror features, essays and retrospectives from Ginger Nuts of Horror. We dig into genre history, pay tribute to the people who shaped horror, reveal new book covers and ask why certain stories still get under our skin.
Dani Soncasie spent much of her childhood at Shriners Hospital for Children, afraid of being left behind and of being different. In this guest feature, she traces how those childhood fears in horror form found their way into Blood of the Forsaken, her vampire graphic novel about a family home that stops being safe.
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Vanitas Press, a new independent gothic bookshop and publishing imprint founded by Vicki Donald, opens on Hallowe’en with a shop devoted entirely to gothic literature. Ginger Nuts of Horror readers can claim free Royal Mail Tracked 48 delivery on a first order over £10 with the code GNOHFREE48, running until the end of November.
Slovak cosmic horror writer Michal Polgár goes back to Handlová, the coal town where he grew up, and to Dušičky, the November days Slovakia gives to its dead. From the miners’ memorials to an eighth-century grave he worked on as an archaeologist, he traces the roots of Mornec, book two of the Quiet Ends series.
