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 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.
The Zombie Bike Parade Festival rides through Davis, California, on Halloween Day 2026, a short hop from where the first zombie walk shuffled out in 2001. This feature traces how a failed Guinness bid became a free Halloween festival that has funded 42 adaptive trikes through NorCal Trykers, and why the zombie, of all monsters, belongs on a bike.
The crone has been part of horror since long before cinema existed, from Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken legs to the witch under the oven in Hansel and Gretel. This feature traces her through the European witch trials, hagsploitation cinema and films like Relic and She Will, and lands on Keith Rosson’s new novel Crone.
