Eliza Jabore’s debut Backstabbers reimagines the slasher as a pressure test for female friendship — our interview explores what makes this 2026 release a genuinely subversive entry in horror fiction.
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Out Law by Jim Butcher Review: Harry Dresden’s Best Side Quest Yet
Out Law is vintage Dresden in a smaller package. Harry owes Marcone a debt, and the repayment involves helping a former criminal go straight. The IRS gets involved. An Aztec demon gets involved. Harry’s patience gets tested. The novella’s real magic is the moral friction: redemption is hard, awkward, and maybe impossible. But Butcher makes you root for it anyway. Lean prose, sharp action, genuine heart. The best Dresden novella yet.
The Sourdough Compendium Review: A. G. Slatter’s Gothic Triumph
A. G. Slatter’s The Sourdough Compendium gathers three long-out-of-print mosaic collections into a single 657-page volume of gothic horror that reads like the Rosetta Stone for her entire Sourdough universe. Our review explores how these folk horror stories, built on fairy-tale logic and female defiance, reward every dark fantasy reader who discovers them.
These Familiar Walls Review: C.J. Dotson’s Suburban Horror Burns Super Bright
C.J. Dotson’s These Familiar Walls is a dual-timeline suburban horror novel that burns through the haunted house tradition and builds something sharper from the ashes. Following Amber Walker across 1998 and 2020, it is a psychological horror novel about the stories families tell to survive, the secrets buried in familiar walls, and the terrifying possibility that you deserve to be haunted. For fans of T. Kingfisher, Catriona Ward, and Cassandra Khaw.
Last Z Survival Shooter 2026: Is This the Best Zombie Strategy Game on Mobile Right Now?
Last Z Survival Shooter 2026: Is This the Best Zombie Strategy Game on Mobile Right Now? The mobile zombie game market in 2026 is drowning in its own dead weight. Title after title slaps some rotting faces on a base-builder, calls it a survival game, and expects horror fans to … Last Z Survival Shooter 2026: Is This the Best Zombie Strategy Game on Mobile Right Now?Read more
3 Masterpiece Horror Games That Unknowingly Subverted the Law to Turn Your Soul Into a Playable Currency
3 Masterpiece Horror Games That Unknowingly Subverted the Law to Turn Your Soul Into a Playable Currency Modern gaming is built around currency systems. Every major game asks players to spend something valuable to progress. Sometimes that currency is obvious, like gold, experience points, loot, or crafting materials. Other times … 3 Masterpiece Horror Games That Unknowingly Subverted the Law to Turn Your Soul Into a Playable CurrencyRead more
Writing Horror as an Act of Resistance: Amy Jane Stewart on Her Debut Hex House
Writing horror as an act of resistance, Amy Jane Stewart unpacks how her debut Hex House uses Scottish folklore to confront violence against women.
Brides In the Dark by Jacob Steven Mohr Review: A Dark Fairy Tale of Harpies and Hidden Truths
Brides In the Dark Review: Jacob Steven Mohr’s horror novella blends Gothic dark fairy tale and harpy lore into a tense fable of hidden truths.
The Journey of Mastering Poker: A Strategic Tale
The Journey of Mastering Poker: A Strategic Tale Poker isn’t just luck. Sure, you might win a hand or two on pure chance, but the real masters are weaving strategic stories that’d make Sun Tzu jealous. I’ve watched countless players think they can waltz into a casino and dominate the … The Journey of Mastering Poker: A Strategic TaleRead more
The Temptation of Charlotte North Review: Camilla Bruce’s Dark Gothic Triumph
Camilla Bruce’s The Temptation of Charlotte North is a dark gothic fantasy that understands atmosphere is not decoration but a character with its own pulse. Set on a remote island in 1910, the novel follows Charlotte North, a rebellious young woman who discovers that a violent spirit released from an ancient tower might be the leverage she needs to escape a predetermined life. With three carefully woven points of view and prose that balances elegance with restraint, Bruce has written her most confident, unnerving novel yet.
YA Science Fiction Horror Books: Top Picks for Teens
YA science fiction horror sits at the crossroads of dread and discovery. These aren’t just scary stories for teenagers. They’re nightmares wearing spacesuits.
I’ll Watch Your Baby by Neena Viel: Is a Must-Read
Neena Viel’s second novel, I’ll Watch Your Baby, follows two timelines, Lottie Turner’s 1974 Chicago schemes and Bless’s 1994 robbery gone terrifyingly wrong, through a Southern Gothic haunted house that has earned every one of its ghosts. A socially sharp, historically grounded Black horror novel with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review, it is one of the most significant releases of 2026. This is our full review.
New Writings in Horror and Supernatural Vol III Review: Stephen Jones Revives a Classic
Stephen Jones doesn’t just edit a horror anthology; he curates a conversation between generations of dark fiction writers, and Volume III continues that vital tradition.
The Other by Annie Neugebauer Review: Doppelganger Horror Done Right
The fear isn’t the monster under the bed. It’s the face in the mirror that looks back a moment too long.
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Review: When Wasps Promise Salvation
“A dark teenage family drama for children which bleeds into an unsettling dream world”