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.
Horror review clichés get translated into plain English in this Halloween week dictionary from Ginger Nuts of Horror. From slow burn horror and elevated horror to the final girl, folk horror and the jump scare, every entry explains what reviewers actually mean. It also asks why horror book reviews and film reviews talk in code at all.
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Polis Loizou is back on the road with I Was A Teenage Bisexual, a one-person horror show that turns the old myths about bisexual people into a creature feature. Part vintage horror satire and part teen flick, this piece of queer horror theatre heads to Nottingham, Sale and Wolverhampton after a week in London.
The Witch Elm author Sally-Anne Martyn traces her folk horror roots to a Derbyshire village of corn dollies, well dressings and gala weeks. She revisits The Wicker Man, the Nine Ladies stone circle and a Bakewell witch trial, and explains why Peak District folklore runs through everything she writes.
Horror film locations make terrible places to stay, so Ginger Nuts of Horror has written the guest reviews they never got, from one star to five. The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, the Bates Motel, Camp Crystal Lake, Amity Island from Jaws and the Slaughtered Lamb from An American Werewolf in London are all rated, with the stars handed out at random. Then comes the real question: why do horror fans keep booking the rooms?
Horror movies where the dog lives, picked by Casper and Molly, the two dogs on Ginger Nuts of Horror’s strictest review panel. Dog Soldiers, Gremlins, The Lost Boys and Good Boy are approved, while Halloween and The Conjuring are firmly rejected. It also asks why dogs in horror movies so rarely make it to the end.
Off the Reservation brings Nate Yellow Tail back from The Only Good Indians, with The Buffalo Hunter Hunter standing between them. This feature traces Stephen Graham Jones’s Blackfeet books from an elk hunt to the Marias Massacre to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and shows how Indigenous horror turns revenge into return.
