Warwick Gleeson’s TORMENT BECOMES THEM is an ambitious blend of horror, historical dark fantasy and time travel that asks whether changing history is ever wise. Our review explores the highs, the lows and the pain-based magic system.
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The Raven by Susan McCauley: A Plague-Year Gothic Horror That Freezes You Slowly
Susan McCauley’s The Raven is a four-star gothic horror novel set in the 1665 plague winter, where a Yorkshire cobbler’s grief, faith and madness braid into folk-horror dread. A patient, disturbing historical horror about the monster who keeps a kind face.
American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams: Historical Horror of 1919 and the NAACP Spy Who Passed for White
Kelly McWilliams makes her adult debut with a historical horror novel about a white-passing NAACP spy investigating lynchings during the Red Summer of 1919. Our five-star review looks at how American Nightmare refuses catharsis, and why that refusal makes it the strongest Black horror fiction of the year. Out from Crown on 15 September 2026.