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.
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Dweller in Darkness by Sam Flynn Review: Grimdark Cosmic Horror With Teeth
Sam Flynn closes the Deadlights Duology with Dweller in Darkness, a grimdark cosmic horror novella of empire, complicity and corrupted mythology. Told through daring second-person narration, this is political horror with teeth.
This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want Review: The Screen Bites Back
Hailey Piper takes the cursed film novel and twists it through grief, lost media, queer bonds and cosmic horror. This five-star review looks at why This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want makes the act of watching feel unsafe.
Washed Up on Dark Shores by Jonathan Wood: Greed Given a Body
Jonathan Wood’s Washed Up on Dark Shores literalises greed as a god called Mammon and lets it eat the world one savage sentence at a time. Our five-star review digs into the corporate cosmic horror, the ferocious prose style, and how it connects to his work as Jon Hollins and J.P. Oakes.
The God at the Bottom of the Ledger: Jonathan Wood on Washed Up on Dark Shores
Jonathan Wood discusses his novella Washed Up on Dark Shores, the horror of extreme wealth, and why naming the monster is the first step to fighting it.
A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves
Kim Bo-young takes Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth and relocates it to a quarantined Korean fishing village in A Plagued Sea, her first horror novella in English. Translated by Sophie Bowman for Tor Nightfire, it turns cosmic horror into a pandemic elegy about grief, guilt and the people we cannot protect. Our five-star review explains why this hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling lingers.
The Sea Hides Its Dead By Megan Bontrager: Cosmic Horror That Makes You Confess
Trapped in a sea cave that rose overnight off the coast of Maine, nine academics must atone for their greatest sin or die. Megan Bontrager’s The Sea Hides Its Dead turns cosmic horror into a moral reckoning, and it is one of the finest horror novels of 2026.
Old Gods by AV Wilkes: A Cold, Queer Cosmic Horror Collection
AV Wilkes steps beyond the polar ice with Old Gods, a micro-collection of five reprinted cosmic and folk horror stories. From an 1881 whaling ship to a vampire-haunted seaside hotel, this is queer horror with real tenderness and a deep cold running through every page.