The crone has been part of horror since long before cinema existed, from Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken legs to the witch under the oven in Hansel and Gretel. This feature traces her through the European witch trials, hagsploitation cinema and films like Relic and She Will, and lands on Keith Rosson’s new novel Crone.
In this A. Rushby interview, the author of All Her Beautiful Deaths talks Victorian death photography, the ethics of looking at other people’s grief and why her sentient Culpepper House wishes its family well. She also explains why, after the darker Slashed Beauties, she wanted a feminist gothic full of yearning, and names the YA horror novel that gave her nightmares.
Phil Keeling’s debut horror short story collection moves from the fall of Babel to a low country monster hunt and a wounded angel in a root cellar. Our Be Not Afraid review finds religious horror with teeth, dark humour and Southern weird fiction at its sharpest. This is a self-published horror book that earns every one of its five stars.
Hervé Commère’s YA thriller comes as twenty-one sealed letters, one to tear open each day, as a young man in London races to save the sister who vanished ten years ago. This 21 Days of Fear review looks at how the advent calendar format turns waiting itself into fear. A five star epistolary thriller built for December.
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Jennifer Thorne’s werewolf horror novel sends a grieving carer into an empty country mansion for a weekend of trespass, and the owners come home hungry. My Newbourne Park review looks at the siege, the seduction that follows, and why this class horror novel is the best thing the Diavola author has written.
