Daphne Press opens 2027 with seven new books, from Claire Schultz’s sapphic Bluebeard retelling Even Your Bones Would Do to Barbara Truelove’s zombie satire The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives. We look at the full list, from Susan Dennard’s island ghost mystery to Allison Saft’s Heartsgrove, and the fear that runs through it.
Charlotte Bond tests four shark movie reviews against one simple question: does the shark behave like a shark? Thrash is fine with low expectations, 47 Meters Down is tense and smart, and Shark Night is a lake house of crassness. Her Under Paris review crowns the French thriller as the pick of the shark horror films on streaming.
Peter Stylianou’s The Nice Ones turns the body snatcher story warm, as a weekend in the country goes wrong when everyone but Kate becomes unnervingly kind. This review of the psychological sci-fi horror finds a clever British indie film with a terrific Joelle Rae, held back only by an ending that stops too soon.
Nick Medina talks Savage Lake, his fourth novel, where a Tribal roadblock strands a mother and son at a cabin on Torchlight Lake. He explains why he left the Takoda books behind, how he took cryptid horror back to its roots in Native belief, and what readers wrongly expect from Indigenous horror.
Natalie Wall’s Mothersucker review finds Kim Bohyun’s Korean vampire novel using its monster to ask why a society might need one. Part horror crime procedural, part feminist horror novel, this piece of translated Korean horror from Dead Ink Books follows a grieving mother who hunts abusers across decades.
