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.
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In a guest essay for Ginger Nuts of Horror, Rachel Louise Adams reveals why the second Coldren County novel, Where There’s Smoke, swaps Halloween for a slaughterhouse. She traces the choice to her PhD research and to the ideas in The Sexual Politics of Meat. The result is a slaughterhouse crime novel she calls darker and more personal than No Rest for the Wicked.
Madison Tyler Nelson’s supernatural horror debut follows Tatum Alexander, who sees the dead, as her best friend’s murder drags her back towards her imprisoned mother. In this Portrait of a Haunting review, I argue that a found family horror novel with a prickly heroine is cleverer than it first looks. For fans of witch coven novels and books like Ninth House.
Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done is a French folk horror film about Naw, a young woman on her Polish migrant family’s farm who fears she carries her mother’s curse. Hope Madden finds a mystery held together by Maria Wróbel’s wordless performance, with Roxane Mesquida as the neighbour whose return turns everything into a backward fairy tale.
Joko Anwar locks a meek journalist in a brutal Indonesian prison, and the bodies soon start piling up. Hope Madden finds a prison horror film that is slow to turn scary but full of gory horror comedy, a likeable cast and a surprisingly good heart. Our Ghost in the Cell review weighs the carnage against the camaraderie.
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