The “Phantom Variable” Incident: The Story of the Slot Machine that Hunted Players in 2004 Playing casino games and betting on sports have been popular activities for centuries. Long before the internet and before digital reels, people were drawn to games of chance with an intensity that went beyond simple … The “Phantom Variable” Incident: The Story of the Slot Machine that Hunted Players in 2004Read more
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Nordic Folk Horror Done Right
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Tale of Sýstir announces itself in its opening pages as something different from the usual Nordic-flavoured fantasy. This is folk horror rooted in genuine Huldra mythology, the figure from Scandinavian folklore whose name derives from the Old Norse huldr, meaning “covered” or “secret.” When Sýstir’s mother is accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, Summers is not using the witch trial as backdrop decoration. She is placing her story inside a specific, historical horror that resonates because it never entirely stopped being present. Sýstir, half-human and half-Huldra, escapes into the Dark Forest known as Trollheim, taken in by the rogue troll Agagkantor and accompanied by a wildcat companion named Fulgir, building a found family from the materials of loss and displacement.
Antony J Stanton on Horror That Shapes a Writer
What shapes a horror writer? Antony J Stanton credits The Devil Rides Out, a ghostly TV film from 1982, and a healthy obsession with Dracula. He also names Between Two Fires as the most underrated horror novel ever written.
Ronald Malfi’s The Hive Review: A 750-Page Nightmare of Conformity and Cosmic Dread
You know the feeling of coming home to find everything slightly wrong. The couch pulled three inches left. A photograph tilted. Nothing you can name, but your body knows. That’s Ronald Malfi’s temperature with The Hive (Titan Books, April 14, 2026). This 768-page small town horror novel set in Mariner’s Cove, Maryland, builds dread like rust on a locked gate. After a strange storm scatters ordinary junk across the neighbourhood, the residents develop an obsessive attachment to their discoveries. A door. Coat hangers. A tricycle wheel. They lie for these objects. They kill for them. And ten-year-old Cory McBride, newly awakened to strange psychic powers, is the only one who sees the hive mind forming. Malfi spent twelve years wrestling this story into shape. The result is his most ambitious work yet: cosmic horror grounded in the domestic, where the real terror isn’t the monster but the coat hanger in your closet. Read the full review.
A Parade of Horribles Review: Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8
Horror that fights back. The abyss flinches.
How You Would Die in a Horror Movie Based on Your Sign
How You Would Die in a Horror Movie Based on Your Sign Horror movies feel strangely personal for a reason. The reckless friend who opens the basement door. The intuitive one who senses danger too late. The skeptic who laughs at the warning signs until the lights go out. Every … How You Would Die in a Horror Movie Based on Your SignRead more
Jill Palmer Interview: Frostbite and the Zombies We Inherit
Jill Palmer’s Frostbite isn’t just a zombie novel. It‘s a brutal， hopeful exploration of choosing your own family when the world has already ended.
The Gothic Puzzle Box, A Conversation with Ande Pliego
What Pliego builds in The Library After Dark is less a locked-room mystery and more a labyrinth where the architecture itself remembers, each corridor a mirror reflecting the protagonist’s buried history and the lies she has told herself to survive.
The Demoness Review (2025): Indie Horror‘s Strangest Succubus
Andrew de Burgh‘s The Demoness is an indie horror oddity that blends supernatural dark comedy with eighties slasher charm. The film follows Sydney Culbertson‘s physically unhinged succubus as she torments a cast of already-damned Los Angeles residents. This 2025 release delivers practical effects, a memorable villain, and a tone that balances menace with wicked humour. Our full review explores why this low-budget oddball might be your next favourite horror film.
Femme Feral Review: Sam Beckbessinger’s Feminist Werewolf Novel
Some horror novels make you check under the bed. Sam Beckbessinger’s Femme Feral makes you check your own reflection for teeth. This feminist body horror novel about a queer photographer’s lycanthropic liberation is a howl of feminine rage you won’t forget.
Amy Jane Stewart Interview: Hex House and Feminist Horror
The debut author discusses hidden sanctuaries, revenge as transformation, and the dark heart of her feminist horror fairy tale.
S.A. Barnes Interview: From Space Horror to Dark Academia Romantasy
Claustrophobic space stations. Corporate corruption bleeding into deep space. A doomed luxury cruiser lost for decades, its halls still wet. S.A. Barnes built a devoted readership on sci-fi horror that traps you in the dark with nowhere to run.
Now she’s swapped the wreckage for a dusty university library. But don’t mistake the change of clothes for a change of temper.
Abyss by Nicholas Binge Review: A Corporate Horror That Hits Too Close to Home
Joe Rice walks into an empty office in Canary Wharf. He sits down at a computer. An AI asks him how he is feeling. And the abyss opens. Not beneath his feet. Beneath his chair.
Don’t hand in your notice. You won’t live to regret it.
Ande Pliego’s The Library After Dark Review: Locked Room Horror Done Right
Ande Pliego builds a locked room out of childhood fears, fairy-tale shadows, and the toxic residue of preserved secrets. The Daedalus Library will hold you hostage. The prose moves like a faulty elevator. You will not escape unchanged. This is how you face the thing that terrified you first.
This Book Hates You 2.0 by David L. Tamarin Review: Extreme Horror Returns
This Book Hates You 2.0 is not a book to be read. It’s a contract signed in bad faith. David L. Tamarin’s transgressive fiction collection promises to assault your senses, and it faithfully delivers.