Stephen Jones doesn’t just edit a horror anthology; he curates a conversation between generations of dark fiction writers, and Volume III continues that vital tradition.
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Antony J Stanton on Horror That Shapes a Writer
What shapes a horror writer? Antony J Stanton credits The Devil Rides Out, a ghostly TV film from 1982, and a healthy obsession with Dracula. He also names Between Two Fires as the most underrated horror novel ever written.
Accumulation Author Interview: Aimee Pokwatka On Haunted Houses and Domestic Erosion
I recently spoke with the author about how Accumulation balances supernatural horror with the horror of daily compromise. We discussed the house itself, based on her own 1750s home, where she wrote the novel.
Phantoms in Your Pocket: How Horror Franchises Got a Second Life as Mobile Slots
Phantoms in Your Pocket: How Horror Franchises Got a Second Life as Mobile Slots ________________ Horror has always been about things coming back. The slasher who refuses to stay in the lake, the body that won’t quite lie still in the morgue, the franchise that gets one more sequel five … Phantoms in Your Pocket: How Horror Franchises Got a Second Life as Mobile SlotsRead more
Lost horrors: how the eerie telly of the 1970s birthed liminal dread
Lost horrors: how the eerie telly of the 1970s birthed liminal dread The empty classroom after the last bell. The hotel corridor at 2 AM. That patch of torn concrete behind the grocery store, where no one goes but everyone walks past. These spaces don’t scare you. They wait for … Lost horrors: how the eerie telly of the 1970s birthed liminal dreadRead more
Horror-Themed Casino Games: The Best Spooky Slots and Table Games Online
Horror-Themed Casino Games: The Best Spooky Slots and Table Games Online There’s something almost poetic about the overlap between horror and gambling. Both thrive on tension. Both keep you on the edge of your seat, nerves buzzing, heart tapping just a little faster than usual. It makes perfect sense, then, … Horror-Themed Casino Games: The Best Spooky Slots and Table Games OnlineRead more
Stop Skipping Prologues. You’re Reading the Book Wrong.
PROLOGUE Before We Begin Our Journey Together It was a dark and stormy night. The kind of dark and stormy night that was, if one were being precise about it, very dark. And also quite stormy. Rain lashed the windows of the library like the cold fingers of a reader … Stop Skipping Prologues. You’re Reading the Book Wrong.Read more
5 Best Teen Vampire Movies That Capture High School Horror and Alienation: A Fright Club Special
Growing pains with fangs. The teenage years feel like a horror movie already. The alienation, the hormones, the constant sense that something inside you is changing into something else. Vampire movies understand this better than most genres. They take that beastly transition and make it literal. The best teen vampire … 5 Best Teen Vampire Movies That Capture High School Horror and Alienation: A Fright Club SpecialRead more
2025 Middle Grade Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot: Full Reviews & Ratings
The best Middle Grade horror doesn’t just scare kids. It helps them process real pain. The Middle Grade Bram Stoker Award category remains young. The Horror Writers Association launched it only recently. But the preliminary ballot for 2025 already shows an impressive range. Young Blood has been rating and ranking … 2025 Middle Grade Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot: Full Reviews & RatingsRead more
Beyond the Final Girl: 16 New Horror Books by Women Who Refuse to Look Away
Beyond the Final Girl: 16 New Horror Books by Women Who Refuse to Look Away We spend a lot of time talking about who dies in a horror story. The trope list is long: the first to have sex, the one who runs upstairs instead of out the front door, … Beyond the Final Girl: 16 New Horror Books by Women Who Refuse to Look AwayRead more
Bless Your Heart Review: The Cozy Horror Novel That Serves Blood and Sweet Tea in Equal Measure
Forget what you think you know about vampire fiction. The Evans women run a funeral parlor, bury the dead, and handle the ones that won’t stay down. The thing about small towns is that they all have a family people whisper about. The ones who’ve been there forever, who run … Bless Your Heart Review: The Cozy Horror Novel That Serves Blood and Sweet Tea in Equal MeasureRead more
Cabaret in Flames, Consent, Consumption and Chattering Teeth: Hache Pueyo’s Return to the Monstrous
Some monsters wear sequins. Some wear scalpels. Hache Pueyo writes about both. We carry our childhood horrors in the strangest places. In the hitch of a prosthetic limb. In the way we flinch when someone touches us too fast. In the quiet acceptance that the monsters who broke us might … Cabaret in Flames, Consent, Consumption and Chattering Teeth: Hache Pueyo’s Return to the MonstrousRead more
Cover Reveal: CRONE by Keith Rosson– The New Horror Novel From The Author of Fever House
Crone by Keith Rosson First print run signed by the author with block-sprayed edges Keith Rosson, the author Stephen King hails as “exciting, suspenseful, [and] horrifying,” is set to return with a new novel that promises to be his most haunting work to date. For fans eagerly awaiting his next … Cover Reveal: CRONE by Keith Rosson– The New Horror Novel From The Author of Fever HouseRead more
Between Two Fires Review: Christopher Buehlman’s Medieval Horror Masterpiece
Hell comes to fourteenth-century France in this brutal, beautiful collision of history and horror. You wonder, sometimes, what people actually believed in the fourteenth century. Not the sanitised version we get in textbooks, not the pageantry of knights and castles, but the real marrow of it. When you woke up … Between Two Fires Review: Christopher Buehlman’s Medieval Horror MasterpieceRead more
What Are Slot Providers Innovating?
What Are Slot Providers Innovating? When the lights go down and the screen casts an eerie glow across the room, the digital reels become a gateway to the unknown. Horror and gambling have always shared a common psychological thread: the primal thrill of confronting the unpredictable. But behind the blood-curdling … What Are Slot Providers Innovating?Read more