Laura R. Samotin interview: her new queer dark academia horror The Way It Haunted Him channels Jewish folklore, grief, and a demon-infested archive.
INTERVIEWS
C.J. Leede Interview: On Headlights, Grief, and the Haunted Open Road
C.J. Leede interview exploring her third horror novel Headlights, the grief-haunted open road, and why this quieter book may be her most unsettling yet.
Sarah Langan: How Trad Wife Turns the First‑Person Perspective into a Weapon of Horror
Sarah Langan breaks down how her neo-gothic horror novel Trad Wife uses a disintegrating narrator to expose the nightmare beneath influencer culture’s polished surface.
Cynthia Gómez: On Muñeca, Queer Gothic Horror, and Writing Oakland’s Magic
Cynthia Gómez discusses her debut novel Muñeca, a surreal queer Gothic set in 1968 Oakland, and why working-class witches make the most compelling horror protagonists.
Eliza Jabore on Backstabbers: Weaponising Slasher Tropes & Dismantling Friendship in Her Exceptional Debut
Eliza Jabore’s debut Backstabbers reimagines the slasher as a pressure test for female friendship — our interview explores what makes this 2026 release a genuinely subversive entry in horror fiction.
Hildur Knútsdóttir: Dead Weight, Icelandic Horror & The Art of Feminine Rage
Hildur Knútsdóttir’s Dead Weight is a slow-burning psychological thriller that anchors its horror in the realest threat of all—the violence women face from those who claim to love them.
Antony J Stanton on Horror That Shapes a Writer
What shapes a horror writer? Antony J Stanton credits The Devil Rides Out, a ghostly TV film from 1982, and a healthy obsession with Dracula. He also names Between Two Fires as the most underrated horror novel ever written.
Jill Palmer Interview: Frostbite and the Zombies We Inherit
Jill Palmer’s Frostbite isn’t just a zombie novel. It‘s a brutal， hopeful exploration of choosing your own family when the world has already ended.
The Gothic Puzzle Box, A Conversation with Ande Pliego
What Pliego builds in The Library After Dark is less a locked-room mystery and more a labyrinth where the architecture itself remembers, each corridor a mirror reflecting the protagonist’s buried history and the lies she has told herself to survive.
Amy Jane Stewart Interview: Hex House and Feminist Horror
The debut author discusses hidden sanctuaries, revenge as transformation, and the dark heart of her feminist horror fairy tale.
S.A. Barnes Interview: From Space Horror to Dark Academia Romantasy
Claustrophobic space stations. Corporate corruption bleeding into deep space. A doomed luxury cruiser lost for decades, its halls still wet. S.A. Barnes built a devoted readership on sci-fi horror that traps you in the dark with nowhere to run.
Now she’s swapped the wreckage for a dusty university library. But don’t mistake the change of clothes for a change of temper.
Accumulation Author Interview: Aimee Pokwatka On Haunted Houses and Domestic Erosion
I recently spoke with the author about how Accumulation balances supernatural horror with the horror of daily compromise. We discussed the house itself, based on her own 1750s home, where she wrote the novel.
Nicholas Binge: Abyss, Anger & Eating Your Future Self
It’s not a metaphor. Call your mum. Call your best friend. Do the things you love even if you think you’re too tired to do them. You’ll feel better afterwards. Go for a walk. Talk to strangers. Stop trying to make the world so convenient that you forget to live.
Aaron Norton, A Horror Author’s Journey from Submarine Isolation to the Shortbox
No monsters under the bed. Just bad decisions and the walls closing in. The silence inside a submarine runs deeper than most people imagine. Aaron Norton spent years in that silence as a U.S. Navy veteran. He also survived a childhood of homelessness. Now he writes gothic horror blended with … Aaron Norton, A Horror Author’s Journey from Submarine Isolation to the ShortboxRead more
Jasper Bark Interview Part 2: Harmed and Dangerous, Bark Bites Horror, and the Stories That Can Kill
After a career that includes on-air banana incidents, Bonfire Night riots, and a near shooting by Rupert Murdoch’s bodyguard, Jasper Bark has learned to push boundaries. The first half of our conversation covered his river gypsy upbringing, his theatre bans, and the moment his wife nearly grabbed a kitchen knife. Now we move to the work itself. His fiction.