Jessica Hamilton’s folk horror debut sends a grieving mother into a haunted wood that offers her family a second life, at a price only she has to pay. A true crime podcast framing device and a bold menopause-as-horror metaphor make this one of the more inventive femgore entries this year, even when it over-explains its own best idea.
The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing Review: Monsters, Labour and Found Family
Marshall J. Moore turns classic Gothic sidekicks into the centre of the story in The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing. Funny, warm and sharp on labour, loyalty and found family, this cosy horror earns its five stars.
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Jessica Hamilton on The Woods: And The Monster We Are Scared to Talk About
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.
The Rouse by China Miéville Review: A Vast, But Slightly Flawed Reveille
China Miéville returns after fourteen years with The Rouse, a vast work of weird fiction that folds grief, war and necromancy into a single twentieth-century epic. It is a formidable, demanding ghost story, and it rewards patience far more than it courts it. Our four-star review sorts the wonder from the sheer weight of the thing.
Dweller in Darkness by Sam Flynn Review: Grimdark Cosmic Horror With Teeth
Sam Flynn closes the Deadlights Duology with Dweller in Darkness, a grimdark cosmic horror novella of empire, complicity and corrupted mythology. Told through daring second-person narration, this is political horror with teeth.
The Memory Tree by Heather Davey, Review: Roots, Rituals and Rural Dread
Heather Davey’s The Memory Tree binds two timelines to one ancient yew in a Dorset village where memory refuses to stay buried. A strong Gothic folk horror built on grief, ritual and creeping unease, even if the final reveal is less sure than the long build.
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