A ranking of seven fictional vampires I could kill without breaking a sweat, from Nosferatu to Count Duckula. Yes, David from The Lost Boys makes the list, and yes, I have strong opinions about his hair. Proof that most vampire movies are style over substance.
Costume designer Sarah Hinkley spent years dressing other people’s stories on the sets of SVU and Monsterland. Now she’s written her own: The Red Sacrament, a debut vampire novel set in a starving, besieged 1870 Paris. We talked queer vampire fiction, the long shadow of Interview with the Vampire, and why her immortals are petty, risk-averse, and far too tired of each other.
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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.
Jack Rushton is a thirty-nine-year-old vampire who just wants to be left alone with his Radio 4 comedies and his unrequited crush. Instead, he’s been blackmailed by a six-hundred-year-old vampire queen, hunted by a clueless anti-vampire collective, and his teenage sister is developing migraines that might be something far worse. Gayle Ramage’s Jockula is a darkly comic Scottish vampire horror that earns both halves of that descriptor.
Jeff Strand’s Fun Times at the Bloodbath is horror comedy with teeth, a video game horror novel about a playtest no one can quit. The Bram Stoker Award winning author weaponises the attention economy and folds extreme horror into his sharpest comic engine yet. Here is why it gets under your skin.
Sara Hinkley’s The Red Sacrament is historical vampire horror with a sharp political edge, set in a midnight Paris theatre in 1869. My review digs into the slow dread, the gorgeous gothic prose, and the way this queer vampire novel turns the Anne Rice tradition toward class, labour, and the coming Paris Commune.
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KC Grifant’s Women of the Weird West gathers 25 stories and poems that hand the gun to every woman the old westerns left out. This weird western horror anthology from Brigids Gate Press blends frontier folklore, women in horror, and speculative western short stories into one of the sharpest entries in the weird west revival.
Angel R. Sánchez’s possession novel The Devil in I trades grand spectacle for creeping internal dread, an indie horror book that understands how much damage a single misplaced shadow can do.
