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.
INTERVIEWS
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.
Author Interview — Kirill Khrestinin, Dear AI, I Killed Her: A Confession Without Forgiveness
Kirill Khrestinin wrote a horror novel where the monster doesn’t chase you. The monster listens. “Dear AI, I Killed Her: 16 Sessions About the Dead Girl in a Blue Dress” takes a familiar true crime confession structure and feeds it into something colder than any human detective. An artificial intelligence … Author Interview — Kirill Khrestinin, Dear AI, I Killed Her: A Confession Without ForgivenessRead more
Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1
A life lived at the edges, where the only way out is further in. Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1 A horror writer’s biography usually reads like a dust jacket afterthought, a few tame lines about cats and teaching jobs. With Jasper Bark, … Jasper Bark Interview: The Horror Writer Who Became the Story – Part 1Read more
Shauntionne on Black Southern Gothic and the Horrors History Leaves Behind
Shauntionne writes from a place where the soil remembers what the living try to forget. The Louisville, Kentucky native, now navigating a creative path shaped by stints in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and time abroad, constructs fiction that refuses to look away from the abandoned corners of American history. Her … Shauntionne on Black Southern Gothic and the Horrors History Leaves BehindRead more
Dean Cade Author Interview: Queer Horror, True Crime, and the Summer 1973 Trilogy
Desire to create is the fuel that stokes me to write. Cathartic and sometimes obsessive, creation is a rush, like taking something fictional and making it feel real, or in a memoir, expressing a crazy time that really happened. Similar to working out at the gym, every small action at … Dean Cade Author Interview: Queer Horror, True Crime, and the Summer 1973 TrilogyRead more
The Lighthouse at the End of the World: Philip A. Suggars on Urban Fantasy, Social Mobility, and Inherited Trauma
“A working‑class kid, a London built from broken skyscrapers, and a chaos magic system that bends probability instead of rules. Philip A. Suggars delivers urban fantasy that feels genuinely new. No chosen ones. Just grit, wit, and inherited trauma.” Philip A. Suggars grew up in Tooting, South London, watching double‑decker … The Lighthouse at the End of the World: Philip A. Suggars on Urban Fantasy, Social Mobility, and Inherited TraumaRead more
Seth Augenstein Preaches the Gospels of Extinction
Gallows humor. Ancient curses. Family trauma. One hell of a collection. Seth Augenstein spent years as a newspaper reporter chasing real crimes and tragedies. He saw enough genuine darkness to know that sometimes fiction makes better sense of it all. His debut short story collection, The Gospels of Extinction, arrives June … Seth Augenstein Preaches the Gospels of Extinction Read more