Djuna’s Memoir of a Joseon Bride gathers vampires, zombies, robots and online film fans into one genre-bending book of Korean speculative fiction. Natalie Wall finds a translated short story collection that is inventive, unsettling and keen to take risks, even when a few stories tease the mind more than they move the heart.
Horror film locations make terrible places to stay, so Ginger Nuts of Horror has written the guest reviews they never got, from one star to five. The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, the Bates Motel, Camp Crystal Lake, Amity Island from Jaws and the Slaughtered Lamb from An American Werewolf in London are all rated, with the stars handed out at random. Then comes the real question: why do horror fans keep booking the rooms?
Hope Madden’s Crawlers review finds little beneath the story but no shortage of killer spiders, as Matilda Lutz and her neighbours are sealed inside an infested Los Angeles apartment building. Ángel Gómez Hernández’s spider horror movie builds its tension floor by floor and leaves its audience scratching in their seats.
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Horror movies where the dog lives, picked by Casper and Molly, the two dogs on Ginger Nuts of Horror’s strictest review panel. Dog Soldiers, Gremlins, The Lost Boys and Good Boy are approved, while Halloween and The Conjuring are firmly rejected. It also asks why dogs in horror movies so rarely make it to the end.
Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi’s Unearthed sends nineteen writers into tombs, temples and stone circles, and the best of them find that the dig is the scary part. Slatter, Castro and Jiang lead a Titan Books anthology about who owns the past, held back from full marks by one story that needed a content note.
