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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.
YA & Middle Grade Horror Roundup | May-June 2026
Tony Jones returns with his latest YA horror and middle grade horror roundup, covering seven books that blend horror with thriller, dystopian and science fiction. Standouts include Dan Smith’s The Night House Files, perfect for reluctant readers, and twisty YA thrillers from Carlyn Greenwald and Dana Mele.
The Lamp in the Window by Tom Mead A Victorian Ghost Story
Every Christmas Eve, an old Victorian don lights a lamp and tells his students a ghost story. Decades later, one of them must face what those tales were really about. My review of Tom Mead’s The Lamp in the Window, an eerie Christmas ghost story novella from Absinthe Books.
Jockula by Gayle Ramage: Scottish Vampire Horror with Bite and Laughs
Jack Rushton is a thirty-nine-year-old vampire who just wants to be left alone with his Radio 4 comedies and his unrequited crush. Instead, he’s been blackmailed by a six-hundred-year-old vampire queen, hunted by a clueless anti-vampire collective, and his teenage sister is developing migraines that might be something far worse. Gayle Ramage’s Jockula is a darkly comic Scottish vampire horror that earns both halves of that descriptor.
The Turn by Rachel Feder: A Contemporary Gothic Review
Rachel Feder’s The Turn is a contemporary Gothic novella that reimagines the classic governess narrative for the pandemic era. This unsettling literary horror explores the monstrous bond between caregiver and child, the politics of care, and the terror of having your own memory rewritten. A precise, slow-creeping piece of vampire fiction that earns every scare.
Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror by Kristopher Woofter
Kristopher Woofter’s Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror offers a heady intellectual investigation into how films like Ghostwatch, Lake Mungo, and Unfriended capture our cosmic fears of the uncapturable. This academic study traces the genre’s evolution from gothic epistolary novels to screenlife horror, examining our fraught relationship with the cameras that document our lives—and our deaths.
Scary Movie Night by Miranda Smith: Meta-Slasher Locked-Room Thriller
Miranda Smith’s Scary Movie Night drops a woman into a costume party full of friends dressed as movie killers, then locks the doors. My horror book review digs into the meta-slasher and locked-room thriller, the final girl reborn, and the coercive-control story under the fun.
Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey: Folk Horror & Unreliable Narrators
Catriona Silvey’s Vervain Hollow is a masterclass in folk horror and psychological suspense. Through the eyes of an unreliable narrator, this cult horror novel weaves a tale of memory and magnetism that lingers long after the final page.
House of Wyrd by Maura McHugh: A Tarot-Infused Occult Horror That Walks the Path
Maura McHugh’s House of Wyrd is an occult horror novella that uses the Tarot’s Major Arcana as both structure and sacrament. When art provocateur Aly Wyrd vanishes on the eve of her visionary project’s opening, her estranged daughter Pallas must walk the Illumination Trail—a physical journey up an Irish mountain that mirrors the Fool’s journey through the twenty-two trumps. What unfolds is a mother-daughter reckoning wrapped in the skin of a magical mystery.