Jessica Hamilton’s folk horror debut sends a grieving mother into a haunted wood that offers her family a second life, at a price only she has to pay. A true crime podcast framing device and a bold menopause-as-horror metaphor make this one of the more inventive femgore entries this year, even when it over-explains its own best idea.
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Jessica Hamilton on The Woods: And The Monster We Are Scared to Talk About
Jessica Hamilton gives Ginger Nuts of Horror a horror interview on The Woods, her first novel billed outright as horror after two books sold as thrillers. She digs into the femgore wave, her admiration for Marcus Kliewer, and the menopause motif running beneath the supernatural one in this domestic horror novel.