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Mark Morris: Bad Things Happen Here and a Life in Horror
Mark Morris has been writing British horror fiction since 1989, and Bad Things Happen Here may be his most emotionally precise novel yet. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks about intergenerational fear, the Nordic folklore that shaped That Which Stands Outside, and what it actually takes to survive four decades in a genre that has buried far bigger names. Essential reading for anyone who takes UK horror seriously.
Our Top 5 Mark Morris Novels: Blood, Floods, Folk Legends, and Whatever’s Standing Outside
This week, Ginger Nuts of Horror is marking the release of his new novel, Bad Things Happen Here, with three consecutive days of Mark Morris. Today, we are running our Top Five Mark Morris novels, five books drawn from across his career that show what he does when he is operating at full power. On Wednesday, Jim McLeod sits down with Mark for an in-depth interview. On Thursday, we publish our full review of Bad Things Happen Here.
Vic Kerry Is Stuck in A Horror Franchise
Vic Kerry wakes up in I Know What You Did Last Summer—and he’s not scared. Between crushing on Jennifer Love Hewitt and exploiting Ben the Fisherman’s terrible wardrobe choices for a heat stroke victory, this horror interview template gets weird. Plus: why Velma needs Dr. House and Geordi La Forge.
Find Your Friends Review: Izabel Pakzad’s Desert Revenge Misfires
Izabel Pakzad’s Find Your Friends drops five wasted party girls into Joshua Tree and promises a survival-horror reckoning with toxic masculinity. There’s a real story of female rage swimming beneath the booze, the Molly and the desert menace — but does this Shudder revenge thriller ever let it breathe? Our review counts the cost.
Cover Reveal: Still Floating: Pennywise at 40 and Why He Won’t Die
Forty years after Stephen King published IT, Pennywise the Dancing Clown is still showing up: on HBO, in academic criticism, and now in Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise, edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Tom Deady. The book brings together thirty contributors, including Stephen King expert Bev Vincent and co-author Richard Chizmar, to examine the cultural weight of a 1,138-page novel that never quite let go. This retrospective makes the case for why IT belongs in a different conversation than most horror fiction, and why that conversation is long overdue.
