Joshua Chaplinsky charts the two hundred and fifty year history of the haunted house novel, from Pliny the Younger’s cursed Athens letter through Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s The Shining and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. It lands as his own contribution to the subgenre, The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night, arrives from CLASH Books.
Max Doty talks about The House That Eats the Dead, the domestic horror novel that began life as a NoSleep horror series and won the community’s Best Series award for 2023. He explains why the hungry house is a scavenger rather than a villain, how Save the Cat shaped his outlining, and how far Claire will go to protect her family. A horror author interview about houses, ownership, and the things we quietly agree to forget.
