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.
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.
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.
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.
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Hollow Folk, the new novel from the author of the Dark Things duology, stops the clocks at an Appalachian mountain resort and leaves three co-workers trapped with the hotel’s century-old secrets. Damascus Mincemeyer finds a haunted hotel novel that pairs a charming horror romance with Clark’s most chilling scares yet, and gives it four out of five. Fans of Where Dark Things Grow and Quill & Crow Publishing House will want to check in.
Patrick Freivald’s Mitchcraft: Vacation Magic School is middle grade horror about a boy who knows every spell and can cast none. At a summer camp in the woods, rude children vanish and return polite, and only the kids are scared. A creepy, funny magic school horror from Apokrupha Books that earns its five stars.
Rachel Louise Adams follows No Rest for the Wicked with a Coldren County novel set on a Wisconsin kill floor, and it is a slaughterhouse horror novel with real bite. This Where There’s Smoke review explains why Dolores Hawthorne’s second case earns five stars, and how Adams turns the meat trade’s soft words against the men who run it.
