Michael Wehunt follows his Bram Stoker-winning debut with a novel that grafts vampire folklore onto a serial-killer plot, and asks what a family passes down along with its blood. Ginger Nuts of Horror gives it five stars.
Horror Book Reviews
What Feeds Below Review: Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s Cave Horror Fantasy Redefines YA Darkness
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s What Feeds Below is a YA horror fantasy that descends into the Void and refuses to let you back up for air. Cave horror, fungal body horror, and a devastating friendship story combine into something genuinely new. Our full review explores what makes this one of 2026’s essential horror reads.
The Woods by Jessica Hamilton: folk horror makes menopause the monster, mostly on its own terms
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.
Should Authors Respond to Reviews? A Field Guide for the Fragile
A four part survival guide to authors responding to reviews, from the negative one you must never answer to the glowing one that earns the reviewer a lawn mowing. Written for any horror author currently refreshing Goodreads and reaching for the Reply button. The correct response is almost always silence, and occasionally chocolate.
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.
The Role of Folklore in Modern Horror Games
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The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty: A Hungrier Haunted House
Tor Nightfire’s August 2026 debut from Max Doty reinvents the haunted house novel with no ghost at all, only a property that eats the dead and unmakes the record of them. Our review digs into the complicity horror at its core, the class and money threaded underneath, and why this domestic horror lingers long after the last page.
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