Jeneva Rose steps away from thriller twists for Sometimes I Scare Myself, her first horror short story collection built from three dread soaked novellas. Ginger Nuts of Horror talks to her about Never Kill the Medium, The Nightmare House, All Curses Are Final, and why postpartum horror turned out to be the perfect ground for stories with no reckoning at the end.
Joshua Chaplinsky’s The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night is a surreal, multi-timeline haunted house novel about the ways abuse gets passed down through a family like an heirloom nobody wants. The first third asks more patience than it gives back, but once the Vogel House’s true shape emerges, this becomes one of the more genuinely upsetting horror novels of the year.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne talks cave horror for her new book What Feeds Below. She built the Void’s monsters from cordyceps and deep sea life, with roots in Made in Abyss. She also traces the path from Such Lovely Skin and The Mean Ones to a close, risky friendship built to survive a pit that wants to eat it.
Joshua Chaplinsky charts the two hundred and fifty year history of the haunted house novel, from Pliny the Younger’s cursed Athens letter through Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s The Shining and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. It lands as his own contribution to the subgenre, The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night, arrives from CLASH Books.
Hope Madden reviews Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody, a pregnancy horror feature debut built around two performances that do the heavy lifting. Samantha Robinson and Colleen Foy anchor a slow burn shift from cabin set dread into full blown creature feature, with results that mostly earn their transformation.
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Michael C. Williams has a theory about The Blair Witch Project: every found footage film since 1999 gets judged against it, the way every shark movie gets judged against Jaws. With a reunion tour underway and Lionsgate’s 2027 reboot from Dylan Clark on the way, we look at who escaped that shadow, who got crushed by it, and what the new film needs to survive.
