Rachel Harrison sits down to talk Kiss Slay Replay, the wedding weekend time loop horror that follows Play Nice and Such Sharp Teeth. She explains why she never set out to write a slasher, what the loop is really processing, and how a Blink-182 song and a Virgo’s fear of losing control fed the book. It is a horror comedy interview about grief, choreography, and stubborn hope.
Vincent Ralph talks us through Corpse Creek, the grief horror centrepiece of his Bleak Haven series, and the drowned brother who will not stay under. He explains how four YA horror novels rework R.L. Stine’s Fear Street into something darker, and why Fear Farm had to end the whole thing in blood.
Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
Summer Coven brings Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor’s married vampire detectives back to Trident Falls for a second cozy paranormal mystery, this time knotted up with the Celestine Coven and a poisoned pet psychic. In our Dead & Breakfast interview, the pair explain what it costs to make horror’s oldest monster cosy, and where the fear goes when nobody is scared of the vampire any more.
A dead man, a demon, and the happily ever after that damns everyone else. Clay McLeod … Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the HorrormanceRead more
Max Doty talks about The House That Eats the Dead, the domestic horror novel that began life as a NoSleep horror series and won the community’s Best Series award for 2023. He explains why the hungry house is a scavenger rather than a villain, how Save the Cat shaped his outlining, and how far Claire will go to protect her family. A horror author interview about houses, ownership, and the things we quietly agree to forget.
Zac Crook builds horror like a musician, one scene at a time. In this interview he opens up Strikethrough, his psychological horror novel about Harlem Ward, a man who thinks he understands himself and probably doesn’t. We talk demons, Shirley Jackson, and why he prints his own face onto a book cover.
