Jacob Steven Mohr’s Samanthas sends a teenage essay writer after a missing swimmer and three new girls who share one name. This horror novella blends hard-boiled teen noir with sad, strange body horror, plus three bonus stories that widen its world. Read the full Samanthas review on Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Slovak cosmic horror writer Michal Polgár goes back to Handlová, the coal town where he grew up, and to Dušičky, the November days Slovakia gives to its dead. From the miners’ memorials to an eighth-century grave he worked on as an archaeologist, he traces the roots of Mornec, book two of the Quiet Ends series.
Ben Unsworth reviews Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country, the Welsh Lovecraftian anthology edited by Mark Howard Jones for Macabre Ink. Its seven long stories trade tentacles for mood, with Arthur Machen’s land as the backdrop for some fine Lovecraftian fiction. John Llewellyn Probert and George supply the two tales he expects to see in his year’s best.
Phil Keeling’s debut horror short story collection moves from the fall of Babel to a low country monster hunt and a wounded angel in a root cellar. Our Be Not Afraid review finds religious horror with teeth, dark humour and Southern weird fiction at its sharpest. This is a self-published horror book that earns every one of its five stars.
Hailey Piper sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to discuss This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, her second novel steeped in Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow. She talks through the Toad Man, the cursed film at its centre, and why she calls horror the most honest genre. Titan Books publishes the cosmic horror on 15 September 2026.
