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.
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 He talks through the craft lessons of three unpublished novels, the mechanics of building a villain worth hating, and what he wants a revenge story to leave behind.
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Alex Hunter sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to talk about The House That Screamed, his meta horror take on the haunted house novel. He explains why minds now frighten him more than monsters, how Peter Straub gave him permission to break the rules, and why he trusts readers to decide what the real horror is.
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.
