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.
Pinfeathers by Christina Henry Review: A Mother’s Fear Grows Quills
Christina Henry’s Pinfeathers is a maternal body horror novel about a baby who starts to grow feathers and a mother who decides to hide her. Fierce, funny and full of dread, this Christina Henry new novel stumbles only with its thin villains and late answers. Here is our body horror book review.
Bloodborne Amygdala: The Great One Watching From the Spires
George Daniel Lea’s Thirteen for Halloween entry turns to the Bloodborne Amygdala, the most active and visible of the game’s Great Ones. He traces how FromSoftware monster design makes it a figure of Lovecraftian ambiguity, from the Cathedral Ward spires to the Nightmare Frontier.
Mothersucker by Kim Bohyun Review: The Vampire Is the Least of It
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.
A Cold Season Review: Blood on the Snow and a Santa in Shades
Christian Jude Grillo’s A Cold Season puts a lonely man in a snowbound Pennsylvania town and a Santa in sunglasses inside his head. This Christmas psychological horror from Intruder Films leans on Andrew Hunsicker’s quiet lead and a real winter, even if the world around him stays thin.
Myth, Magic and Cats: Kristen J. Sollée and Lindsay Merbaum
Kristen J. Sollée, Lindsay Merbaum, Nightcats, Witches of the Wheel, Feral Eye, Creature Publishing, occult horror, feminist horror, vampire fiction, witchcraft, black cats, goddess mythology, queer horror
There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel Review: Jason Pargin’s Funniest, Kindest Nightmare
Jason Pargin sends Dave, John and Amy back to Undisclosed, where a heap of severed limbs and a war between worlds turn into the warmest John Dies at the End book yet. Our five star review of this cosmic horror comedy looks at the jokes, the gore and the heart under both.
Thirteen for Halloween: Son of Celluloid, the Cancer That Loved Film
One of Clive Barker’s most disturbing Books of Blood monsters is a living cancer that falls in love with the movies. In this Thirteen for Halloween essay, George Daniel Lea reads it as body horror and as a cynical satire of a film business that turns our dreams into fodder.
5 ways to get your horror fix for spooky season
5 ways to get your horror fix for spooky season Haunted reels, terrifying tales, and a … 5 ways to get your horror fix for spooky seasonRead more
The Weird Kidz Review: Hand-Drawn Mayhem From an Unsupervised Childhood
Zach Passero spent eight years hand-drawing The Weird Kidz, an animated horror comedy about three sixth graders, a desert camping trip and a murderous monster. Hope Madden finds a crude but fond piece of Gen X nostalgia, with Ellar Coltrane among the voices, that never judges its kids.





