Some horror novels make you check under the bed. Sam Beckbessinger’s Femme Feral makes you check your own reflection for teeth. This feminist body horror novel about a queer photographer’s lycanthropic liberation is a howl of feminine rage you won’t forget.
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Amy Jane Stewart Interview: Hex House and Feminist Horror
The debut author discusses hidden sanctuaries, revenge as transformation, and the dark heart of her feminist horror fairy tale.
S.A. Barnes Interview: From Space Horror to Dark Academia Romantasy
Claustrophobic space stations. Corporate corruption bleeding into deep space. A doomed luxury cruiser lost for decades, its halls still wet. S.A. Barnes built a devoted readership on sci-fi horror that traps you in the dark with nowhere to run.
Now she’s swapped the wreckage for a dusty university library. But don’t mistake the change of clothes for a change of temper.
Ande Pliego’s The Library After Dark Review: Locked Room Horror Done Right
Ande Pliego builds a locked room out of childhood fears, fairy-tale shadows, and the toxic residue of preserved secrets. The Daedalus Library will hold you hostage. The prose moves like a faulty elevator. You will not escape unchanged. This is how you face the thing that terrified you first.
This Book Hates You 2.0 by David L. Tamarin Review: Extreme Horror Returns
This Book Hates You 2.0 is not a book to be read. It’s a contract signed in bad faith. David L. Tamarin’s transgressive fiction collection promises to assault your senses, and it faithfully delivers.
Help Ginger Nuts of Horror Survive: 18 Years of Horror Reviews
For 18 years, Ginger Nuts of Horror has been a voice the horror genre refused to silence. Now we need your help to keep the server running. I’m Jim Mcleod, the founder of Ginger Nuts of Horror. I started this website on a whim while recovering from surgery, heavily medicated, … Help Ginger Nuts of Horror Survive: 18 Years of Horror ReviewsRead more
Accumulation Author Interview: Aimee Pokwatka On Haunted Houses and Domestic Erosion
I recently spoke with the author about how Accumulation balances supernatural horror with the horror of daily compromise. We discussed the house itself, based on her own 1750s home, where she wrote the novel.
Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka Review: A Haunted House Novel That Knows the Real Horror Is Domesticity
Aimee Pokwatka’s ACCUMULATION writes domestic horror as ambient dread—the terror accumulates in the cracks of a woman’s attention, in the repetition of chores, the slow erosion of identity. This is a haunted house novel where the real ghost is everything she gave up.
Sarafina by Philip Fracassi Review: Where Civil War Brutality Meets Body Horror
“Sarafina weaponises hope, turning every sigh of relief into a prelude for something monstrous. Philip Fracassi proves he’s not just a horror writer; he’s a literary force who uses the Civil War as a backdrop for a terrifying meditation on survival, guilt, and the price of peace.”
Pixerina: A Haunting by Joanne Anderton Review – Suburban Gothic That Cracks Ordinary Walls
A house on a hill should feel safe. In Pixerina: A Haunting by Joanne Anderton, it does not. This suburban Gothic novella transforms familiar domestic spaces into something quietly sinister. The story follows Rebecca, an artist trapped between creative frustration and the weight of unspoken losses. She finds an old house. She becomes obsessed. Anderton builds dread not through jump scares but through atmosphere so thick you feel it in your ribs.
How the Four Forex Trading Sessions in MT5 Can Transform Your Daily Trading Strategy
How the Four Forex Trading Sessions in MT5 Can Transform Your Daily Trading Strategy With charts open, indicators set, and a strong sense of motivation, you wake up prepared to trade. However, something is still lacking. Sometimes, trades proceed slowly, and when you’re not looking, possibilities present themselves. At that … How the Four Forex Trading Sessions in MT5 Can Transform Your Daily Trading StrategyRead more
Alakazam by Mia Dalia Review: A Haunting Novella About Ambition, Identity, and the Cost of Disappearing
A magician’s abandoned house. Two curious friends. And the secret that refuses to stay buried. In Mia Dalia’s Alakazam, the line between illusion and reality dissolves like salt in Atlantic City’s humid air. This supernatural horror novella (PS Publishing, August 2025) follows two timelines: a mixed-race gay magician’s rise to fame … Alakazam by Mia Dalia Review: A Haunting Novella About Ambition, Identity, and the Cost of DisappearingRead more
Author Interview — Kirill Khrestinin, Dear AI, I Killed Her: A Confession Without Forgiveness
Kirill Khrestinin wrote a horror novel where the monster doesn’t chase you. The monster listens. “Dear AI, I Killed Her: 16 Sessions About the Dead Girl in a Blue Dress” takes a familiar true crime confession structure and feeds it into something colder than any human detective. An artificial intelligence … Author Interview — Kirill Khrestinin, Dear AI, I Killed Her: A Confession Without ForgivenessRead more
Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly: The 1970s British Childhood Memoir That Gets Under Your Skin
The childhood you half-remember, told by the one person who never wanted to remember it at all. Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, a memoir by Jez Conolly, published by Temporal Boundary Press in 2026, is one of the most original and haunting pieces of British life-writing in recent years. … Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly: The 1970s British Childhood Memoir That Gets Under Your SkinRead more
Died by Izzy Von: A Zombie Novella That Refuses to Look Away
Died by Izzy Von refuses to sentimentalize addiction or suicide. Instead, it delivers 128 pages of raw, intelligent zombie horror where a deaf woman’s worst enemy isn’t the undead, it’s the childhood she can’t outrun and a body that won’t stay dead. Died by Izzy Von: A Zombie Novella That Refuses … Died by Izzy Von: A Zombie Novella That Refuses to Look AwayRead more