Henry Corrigan’s Party of a Lifetime strands four queer friends in Monotony, a 1950s hell town that reshapes itself around their nightmares and slowly reshapes them too. This is body horror written with a mechanic’s patience, with a narcissistic mother at the centre of it, and it is the best thing Corrigan has written.
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Zac Crook on Strikethrough: Demons, Obsession and Trauma
Zac Crook builds horror like a musician, one scene at a time. In this interview he opens up Strikethrough, his psychological horror novel about Harlem Ward, a man who thinks he understands himself and probably doesn’t. We talk demons, Shirley Jackson, and why he prints his own face onto a book cover.