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A Brutally Honest Field Guide to Horror Author Headshots

A Brutally Honest Field Guide to Horror Author Headshots

Horror author headshots have quietly become their own genre, complete with a fixed set of clichés: the bare brick wall, the all-black wardrobe, the half-smile that hints at violence. This field guide roasts the lot, explains how Garth Marenghi turned the brooding-author pose into a punchline, then asks why the horror publishing boom has turned every author photo into a marketing asset. With a salute to Chuck Tingle for solving the problem with a pink bag.

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“A Fate Far More Dangerous Than Death”: Kelly Creagh on Falling for the Reaper

“A Fate Far More Dangerous Than Death”: Kelly Creagh on Falling for the Reaper

Kelly Creagh built a career on gothic dread, borrowing scaffolding from Poe, Leroux and Brontë. A Date with Death drops the dead authors entirely and writes Death straight, as a foul-mouthed skeleton falling for a children’s librarian. In this Kelly Creagh interview, she unpicks the craft of the paranormal romcom, the Poe fingerprints hidden in the jokes, and where the monster romance boom is actually heading.