Clay McLeod Chapman’s Devil Inside is a horrormance in the fullest sense: a demonic possession horror novel that treats its love story with total seriousness and is all the more frightening for it. Jordan died for two and a half minutes. Lilith has never had a body of her own. Our five star review of one of the boldest horror romance books of 2026.
The Yeti drops a 1947 search party into the Alaska Territory and hands them a practical FX creature feature with a proper cast. Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta nail the 40s B movie tone, and Wayne Anderson’s creature design gives the beast real weight. The script, sadly, needed a couple more drafts.
A dead man, a demon, and the happily ever after that damns everyone else. Clay McLeod … Clay McLeod Chapman on Devil Inside and the Art of the HorrormanceRead more
Spider One’s Big Baby casts Brandon Lewis as a horror screenwriter who cannot stop listening to the podcast telling him to die. Krsy Fox supplies the film’s genuine tension, and the crying baby mask supplies the axe. Our horror film review looks at why the story inside Adam’s script leaves the whole thing curiously unsatisfying.
CC Adams returns with Where the Roaches Are, a horror short story collection set in a hospital where the real damage is social rather than supernatural. Echoes of Nigel Kneale, Mark Morris and Roald Dahl run through a book built to disquiet rather than terrify. Read the stories in the order Adams gives you, because the order is doing work.
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onathan Zuck’s Chum strands a wedding party off Malta between a great white shark and a fisherman with a grudge, played by Jim Klock. It is a shark attack horror with a climate change conscience and a fatal reliance on AI visual effects. Alice Eve commits, the Maltese location dazzles, and the film still goes under.
Kim Bo-young takes Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth and relocates it to a quarantined Korean fishing village in A Plagued Sea, her first horror novella in English. Translated by Sophie Bowman for Tor Nightfire, it turns cosmic horror into a pandemic elegy about grief, guilt and the people we cannot protect. Our five-star review explains why this hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling lingers.
Kailee Pedersen’s The Minimalist is a gruelling, unflinching psychological horror novel about a composer’s descent into madness. Published by St. Martin’s Press, it follows Mia Voss as she returns to her mentor’s Santa Fe mansion to complete his unfinished masterpiece, only to find the manuscript exerting a disturbing hold over her. Drawing from Pedersen’s own experiences as an adoptee and classical musician, this is body horror at its most intelligent—a meditation on artistic obsession, adoption trauma, and the sacrifices we make in pursuit of creative perfection.
Tor Nightfire’s August 2026 debut from Max Doty reinvents the haunted house novel with no ghost at all, only a property that eats the dead and unmakes the record of them. Our review digs into the complicity horror at its core, the class and money threaded underneath, and why this domestic horror lingers long after the last page.
The rotten city and the unreliable body are the same complaint, and very few novels admit it. Ahead of Lee Glenwright’s SOMA, a feature mapping British estate horror from Ramsey Campbell and Joel Lane to Gary McMahon and Alison Rumfitt, the body horror line from Clive Barker to Agustina Bazterrica, and the overlap almost nobody works.
Olivie Blake’s Dreamland sends an aspiring actress into a cursed Hollywood dynasty during a Los Angeles summer of murders and Santa Ana winds. A formally daring literary horror novel that fuses the gothic estate with the machinery of modern celebrity, even if the back half loosens its grip.
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Dark Tide 20: Urban Legends brings together three horror novellas from Leigh Kenny, Dan Franklin, and Nick Roberts, published by Crystal Lake Publishing. Our review breaks down a haunted house, a mother’s dread, and a podcast summoning that all go badly wrong. Three flavours of fear, one frightening finish each.
