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
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The Butcher of Nazareth Review: David Scott Hay’s Violent Theological Masterpiece
What if saving the world meant killing its saviour? What happens when a man convinced he’s … The Butcher of Nazareth Review: David Scott Hay’s Violent Theological MasterpieceRead 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
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
Hysterical by Amber Dean: When Obsession Eats Itself Alive
She’s Not the Final Girl. She’s Why There Isn’t One. Amber Dean’s debut burns with the … Hysterical by Amber Dean: When Obsession Eats Itself AliveRead 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
Truth & Reconciliation: A Short Story of Apartheid’s Ghosts and a Marriage Built on Lies
Her past was buried. Their marriage was the grave. In Michael Botur’s gripping new short story, Truth … Truth & Reconciliation: A Short Story of Apartheid’s Ghosts and a Marriage Built on LiesRead 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
Cover Reveal: CRONE by Keith Rosson– The New Horror Novel From The Author of Fever House
Crone by Keith Rosson First print run signed by the author with block-sprayed edges Keith Rosson, … Cover Reveal: CRONE by Keith Rosson– The New Horror Novel From The Author of Fever HouseRead 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
Between Two Fires Review: Christopher Buehlman’s Medieval Horror Masterpiece
Hell comes to fourteenth-century France in this brutal, beautiful collision of history and horror. You wonder, … Between Two Fires Review: Christopher Buehlman’s Medieval Horror MasterpieceRead more
Justin C. Key’s The Hospital at the End of the World: Welcome to the Machine
In a world run by medical AI, one hospital holds out. What happens there will determine … Justin C. Key’s The Hospital at the End of the World: Welcome to the MachineRead more