Horror authors and filmmakers talk to Ginger Nuts of Horror about their new books and films, the influences behind them, and how they build fear on the page and on screen.
In this Tracy Fahey interview, the Irish author talks about Queens of the Crone Age, where the Cailleach listens to women’s stories, and Down We Go Together, her first book of crime and noir stories. She explains why she rewrote an ending to take the answer away and where her female body horror comes from. She also says why contemporary horror film keeps flattening the Hag into a villain, and what Irish folk horror can do instead.
In this J. Todd Kingrea interview, the Virginia pastor and indie horror author talks about Only Angels Have Blue Eyes, a cult horror novel drawn from a true crime case. He explains building a cult leader’s theology from scratch and timing his heroine’s slow awakening, plus self-published horror, psychological horror without the gore, and the dying town of Black Rock in With A Blighted Touch.
Kelly McWilliams talks to Ginger Nuts of Horror about American Nightmare, her Black horror novel built from Walter F. White’s real history as a NAACP spy during the Red Summer of 1919. She explains why the book, unlike her debut Mirror Girls, refuses any monster a reader could kill, and how the Atlanta Race Riot and racial passing shaped its uncanny, rule-less dread.
Jeneva Rose steps away from thriller twists for Sometimes I Scare Myself, her first horror short story collection built from three dread soaked novellas. Ginger Nuts of Horror talks to her about Never Kill the Medium, The Nightmare House, All Curses Are Final, and why postpartum horror turned out to be the perfect ground for stories with no reckoning at the end.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne talks cave horror for her new book What Feeds Below. She built the Void’s monsters from cordyceps and deep sea life, with roots in Made in Abyss. She also traces the path from Such Lovely Skin and The Mean Ones to a close, risky friendship built to survive a pit that wants to eat it.
Michael C. Williams has a theory about The Blair Witch Project: every found footage film since 1999 gets judged against it, the way every shark movie gets judged against Jaws. With a reunion tour underway and Lionsgate’s 2027 reboot from Dylan Clark on the way, we look at who escaped that shadow, who got crushed by it, and what the new film needs to survive.
Hailey Piper sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to discuss This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, her second novel steeped in Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow. She talks through the Toad Man, the cursed film at its centre, and why she calls horror the most honest genre. Titan Books publishes the cosmic horror on 15 September 2026.
Jessica Hamilton gives Ginger Nuts of Horror a horror interview on The Woods, her first novel billed outright as horror after two books sold as thrillers. She digs into the femgore wave, her admiration for Marcus Kliewer, and the menopause motif running beneath the supernatural one in this domestic horror novel.
Peace Mbengei talks through her debut YA horror novel We Run the Night, where Luo night runners turn grief into body horror inside a Kenyan boarding school. She discusses the strangler fig at the story’s centre, the institutional cover up that follows, and why forgiveness, not revenge, sets her heroine free.
Scott Hawkins returns with Blacktail, and in this interview for Ginger Nuts of Horror he explains why he still calls it dark fantasy rather than horror, alongside The Library at Mount Char. He talks through the craft lessons of three unpublished novels, the mechanics of building a villain worth hating, and what he wants a revenge story to leave behind.
