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Zombie Bike Parade: Davis Gives the Undead Wheels
The Zombie Bike Parade Festival rides through Davis, California, on Halloween Day 2026, a short hop from where the first zombie walk shuffled out in 2001. This feature traces how a failed Guinness bid became a free Halloween festival that has funded 42 adaptive trikes through NorCal Trykers, and why the zombie, of all monsters, belongs on a bike.
It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller Review: A Debut With Teeth
Mathilda Zeller expands her Never Whistle at Night story into a five-star Indigenous horror novel about the kushtuka, a creature that wears the faces of the people you love. Set in an Inupiat village as a mine moves in and the winter dark closes, this is Alaskan folk horror with real anger in its bones.
Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée de Fez Review: A Family Love That Bleeds
Desirée de Fez’s debut novel follows a mother and two daughters who can’t stand to be apart, until Christmas Eve in a shopping centre splits them open. Our Don’t Leave Her Alone review explains why this Spanish body horror novel, translated by Lizzie Davis, deserves a place on every horror shelf this autumn. Motherhood body horror fans should clear a space on the shelf.
British Fantasy Awards 2026: Best Horror Novel Shortlist Ranked
All six books on the British Fantasy Awards 2026 shortlist for Best Horror Novel, ranked ahead of FantasyCon in Glasgow. Stephen Graham Jones, Dan Howarth, Grady Hendrix, MK Hardy, Kat Dunn and Gretchen Felker-Martin are all in the running for the August Derleth Award. Here is where each one lands, and why.
Lizzie Borden Films and Fiction: Which Version Gets Her Right?
Kit Whitfield’s What’s On Shudder column puts Lizzie Borden films on trial, from Lizzie on Shudder to The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 and Lizzie Borden Took An Ax. Then she turns to Angela Carter’s Lizzie Borden, told in The Fall River Axe Murders and Lizzie’s Tiger, to ask why nobody can quite pin this woman down.
Death in Its Many Forms by S.H. Cooper Review: The Dead Take Back Their Story
S.H. Cooper’s horror short story collection gives ten dead voices the last word, from a cursed maiden in a cave to a drowned girl and her alligator guardian. My Death in Its Many Forms review looks at the revenge horror, ghost stories about grief and quiet craft that make this self-published horror collection a five-star read.
Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country by Mark Howard Jones Review: Lovecraft, Welsh Style
Ben Unsworth reviews Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country, the Welsh Lovecraftian anthology edited by Mark Howard Jones for Macabre Ink. Its seven long stories trade tentacles for mood, with Arthur Machen’s land as the backdrop for some fine Lovecraftian fiction. John Llewellyn Probert and George supply the two tales he expects to see in his year’s best.
Bringing It Gloam: Jack Mackay on Winning The Week Junior Book Award
In this Jack Mackay interview, the author of Gloam and The Haunting of Old Splinter talks blame, brothers and a wishing claw on the edge of the North York Moors. He also looks back on Gloam’s double win at The Week Junior Book Awards 2026, Indira Varma’s reading of the Gloam audiobook and why middle grade horror should be genuinely scary.