The 2025 YA Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot: Every Book Ranked and Reviewed The 2025 YA … The 2025 YA Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot: Every Book Ranked and ReviewedRead more
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Unshod Cackling and Naked by Tamika Thompson: 13 Short Stories That Refuse to Behave
Continuing my series of reviews that fell victim to my darkest depression days, today I bring … Unshod Cackling and Naked by Tamika Thompson: 13 Short Stories That Refuse to BehaveRead more
Nowhere Burning Review: Catriona Ward’s Brilliant Premise, But Blurry Execution
The concept burns bright. The novel, unfortunately, smoulders. The prose is beautiful. The thematic ambition is … Nowhere Burning Review: Catriona Ward’s Brilliant Premise, But Blurry ExecutionRead more
Gothic Shadows and Stolen Voices: The Brides by Charlotte Cross.
A stunning debut of atmosphere and raw empathy. Cross understands that the deepest darkness often isn’t … Gothic Shadows and Stolen Voices: The Brides by Charlotte Cross.Read more
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru: A Novel of Ghosts and Exile in 1920s Paris
A ghost story about exile, family secrets, and the things we leave behind. Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s … The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru: A Novel of Ghosts and Exile in 1920s ParisRead more
The Shetland Witch by Kate Macdonald: A Calm, Confident Debut of Myth and Sisterhood
The Shetland Witch by Kate Macdonald: A Calm, Confident Debut of Myth and Sisterhood When a … The Shetland Witch by Kate Macdonald: A Calm, Confident Debut of Myth and SisterhoodRead more
Bless Your Heart Review: The Cozy Horror Novel That Serves Blood and Sweet Tea in Equal Measure
Forget what you think you know about vampire fiction. The Evans women run a funeral parlor, … Bless Your Heart Review: The Cozy Horror Novel That Serves Blood and Sweet Tea in Equal MeasureRead more
The Memory Shades Review: David Watkins’s Best Yet Blends Ghosts and Worms
What haunts you when you can’t remember what you did? That question drives The Memory Shades, … The Memory Shades Review: David Watkins’s Best Yet Blends Ghosts and WormsRead more
Cabaret in Flames, Consent, Consumption and Chattering Teeth: Hache Pueyo’s Return to the Monstrous
Some monsters wear sequins. Some wear scalpels. Hache Pueyo writes about both. We carry our childhood … Cabaret in Flames, Consent, Consumption and Chattering Teeth: Hache Pueyo’s Return to the MonstrousRead more
David Scott Hay on The Butcher of Nazareth: A Biblical Horror Masterpiece
What happens when two righteous men face off? A journey into the heart of biblical horror. … David Scott Hay on The Butcher of Nazareth: A Biblical Horror MasterpieceRead more
A Review of Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows: Motherhood, Monsters, and the Crows of Letort
What if love, pushed to its limits, creates the very thing it fears most? What does … A Review of Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows: Motherhood, Monsters, and the Crows of LetortRead more
A Gothic Burrows into the Brain: Inside T. Kingfisher’s Upcoming Horror, Wolf Worm
Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods—and it has a taste for human … A Gothic Burrows into the Brain: Inside T. Kingfisher’s Upcoming Horror, Wolf WormRead more
I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movie, Heidi Honeycutt Rewrites Horror History
The definitive history of female horror directors that reads like a late-night conversation with your favourite … I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movie, Heidi Honeycutt Rewrites Horror HistoryRead more
Review, The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson: A New Classic of American Gothic
The Curse of Hester Gardens will haunt you twice: once for the ghosts, and again for … Review, The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson: A New Classic of American GothicRead more
Beyond the Monster: Richard Dansky on Family, Dread, and the Horrors That Wake Us Up
The haunted house story is a time-honoured tradition. But for acclaimed author and video game narrative … Beyond the Monster: Richard Dansky on Family, Dread, and the Horrors That Wake Us UpRead more