Justin Dec talks Sentry, family, fear and the pull of the unknown. Justin Dec | Interview … Justin Dec on Sentry: A Horror Interview About Family and FearRead more
INTERVIEWS
Alex Hunter on The House That Screamed and Haunting the Reader
Alex Hunter sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to talk about The House That Screamed, his meta horror take on the haunted house novel. He explains why minds now frighten him more than monsters, how Peter Straub gave him permission to break the rules, and why he trusts readers to decide what the real horror is.
An Interview with Rachel Harrison: You Keep Waking Up and It’s Still a Massacre
Rachel Harrison sits down to talk Kiss Slay Replay, the wedding weekend time loop horror that follows Play Nice and Such Sharp Teeth. She explains why she never set out to write a slasher, what the loop is really processing, and how a Blink-182 song and a Virgo’s fear of losing control fed the book. It is a horror comedy interview about grief, choreography, and stubborn hope.
Vincent Ralph on Bleak Haven, Corpse Creek and the Uses of Grief
Vincent Ralph talks us through Corpse Creek, the grief horror centrepiece of his Bleak Haven series, and the drowned brother who will not stay under. He explains how four YA horror novels rework R.L. Stine’s Fear Street into something darker, and why Fear Farm had to end the whole thing in blood.
An Interview with Susan McCauley: Gothic Horror and the Unraveling of Sanity
Susan McCauley talks about her forthcoming gothic horror novel The Raven, the York ghost story that inspired it, and why she keeps returning to themes of loss and madness. She also discusses writing from multiple points of view and the role of atmosphere in horror fiction.
Jo Salazar on If We Survive the Night, a YA Zombie Reckoning
Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
The God at the Bottom of the Ledger: Jonathan Wood on Washed Up on Dark Shores
Jonathan Wood discusses his novella Washed Up on Dark Shores, the horror of extreme wealth, and why naming the monster is the first step to fighting it.
Summer Coven: Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor Defang the Vampire
Summer Coven brings Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor’s married vampire detectives back to Trident Falls for a second cozy paranormal mystery, this time knotted up with the Celestine Coven and a poisoned pet psychic. In our Dead & Breakfast interview, the pair explain what it costs to make horror’s oldest monster cosy, and where the fear goes when nobody is scared of the vampire any more.
Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the Horrormance
A dead man, a demon, and the happily ever after that damns everyone else. Clay McLeod … Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the HorrormanceRead more
Max Doty Interview: Domestic Horror in The House That Eats the Dead
Max Doty talks about The House That Eats the Dead, the domestic horror novel that began life as a NoSleep horror series and won the community’s Best Series award for 2023. He explains why the hungry house is a scavenger rather than a villain, how Save the Cat shaped his outlining, and how far Claire will go to protect her family. A horror author interview about houses, ownership, and the things we quietly agree to forget.