Hailey Piper’s This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want begins with an obscure cinema screening in November 1994. We rewind to VHS culture, pre-Google research and the glorious inconvenience that made the decade perfect for a cursed movie.
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SCARES IN THE SQUARE – FRIGHTFEST 2026
Ginger Nuts of Horror’s FrightFest 2026 reviews take in the full run of this year’s FrightFest 2026 lineup, from Tony Todd’s final performance in The Pitchfork Retreat to Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony and the spider infested chaos of Spider Island. Across five days at the Odeon Luxe, David Court and Tara Court rate the highlights, the disappointments and everything in between.
Gothic Horror Cover Reveal: Iseult Murphy’s Suffer Their Going
Iseult Murphy turns a widow’s grief into a door that opens both ways. Irish author Iseult … Gothic Horror Cover Reveal: Iseult Murphy’s Suffer Their GoingRead more
The Clown: A Tribute to Tim Curry
Should Authors Respond to Reviews? A Field Guide for the Fragile
A four part survival guide to authors responding to reviews, from the negative one you must never answer to the glowing one that earns the reviewer a lawn mowing. Written for any horror author currently refreshing Goodreads and reaching for the Reply button. The correct response is almost always silence, and occasionally chocolate.
They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara! E.F. Schraeder is Reflecting on Childhood Fears
E.F. Schraeder looks back at a 1980s Midwestern girlhood where the ordinary was the frightening part and the undead were a relief. The essay traces childhood fears through slasher films, the satanic panic and goth subculture, and explains exactly what job folk horror had to do. From the author of The Case for Cryptids.
The Horror of My Life: Yuvashri Harish on Kill Your Darlings and YA Horror
Yuvashri Harish takes the Ginger Nuts of Horror questionnaire ahead of her YA horror novel Kill Your Darlings. She talks Goosebumps, Carrie, and the one viewing of The Exorcist she has never managed to repeat. She also names the classic horror monsters behind her Halloween novel, and explains why her next book is cannibalism soulmate horror.