Alma Katsu’s Incarnate is a Dorian Gray retelling for the deepfake age, and this Incarnate review finds it her sharpest novel yet. A lonely effects artist builds the perfect influencer, then accepts help from a stranger who wants something back. Fast, smart techno horror from Titan Books that earns all five stars.
Forget the hunched brute of the films. In this Thirteen for Halloween essay, George Daniel Lea goes back to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and finds a plain, short man rather than a beast. His Jekyll and Hyde analysis lays the blame for the monster on Victorian repression, shame and class.
Nick Medina leaves Louisiana for the northern woods in Savage Lake, a dual timeline horror novel about a mother, her horror-mad son and a family lake with a long memory. My Savage Lake review explains why this Indigenous horror novel from Berkley, mixing cabin in the woods horror with Anishinaabe lore, is the best book Medina has written.
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Hope Madden reviews The Cycle, the Shudder original from The Head Hunter director Jordan Downey that turns a police procedural into a creature feature. Deborah Ann Woll brings quiet power to a forensic case with a very personal twist, and a few monster moments impress. It runs long, but Spooky Season fans after throwback cinema will find a lot to like.
Horror review clichés get translated into plain English in this Halloween week dictionary from Ginger Nuts of Horror. From slow burn horror and elevated horror to the final girl, folk horror and the jump scare, every entry explains what reviewers actually mean. It also asks why horror book reviews and film reviews talk in code at all.
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