Dean Cade’s debut horror novel Cruising sets a closeted gay teenager’s summer against the real historical backdrop of the Houston Mass Murders, the worst serial murder case in American history. Published by Slashic Horror Press in March 2026, the first book in the Summer 1973 trilogy earns its horror through patience, historical precision, and a portrait of queer vulnerability in 1973 Texas that is both formally controlled and genuinely devastating. Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
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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
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
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Nordic Folk Horror Done Right
Georgia Summers’ Trollheim: Tale of Sýstir announces itself in its opening pages as something different from the usual Nordic-flavoured fantasy. This is folk horror rooted in genuine Huldra mythology, the figure from Scandinavian folklore whose name derives from the Old Norse huldr, meaning “covered” or “secret.” When Sýstir’s mother is accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, Summers is not using the witch trial as backdrop decoration. She is placing her story inside a specific, historical horror that resonates because it never entirely stopped being present. Sýstir, half-human and half-Huldra, escapes into the Dark Forest known as Trollheim, taken in by the rogue troll Agagkantor and accompanied by a wildcat companion named Fulgir, building a found family from the materials of loss and displacement.
The Gothic Puzzle Box, A Conversation with Ande Pliego
What Pliego builds in The Library After Dark is less a locked-room mystery and more a labyrinth where the architecture itself remembers, each corridor a mirror reflecting the protagonist’s buried history and the lies she has told herself to survive.
Femme Feral Review: Sam Beckbessinger’s Feminist Werewolf Novel
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.
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.
Abyss by Nicholas Binge Review: A Corporate Horror That Hits Too Close to Home
Joe Rice walks into an empty office in Canary Wharf. He sits down at a computer. An AI asks him how he is feeling. And the abyss opens. Not beneath his feet. Beneath his chair.
Don’t hand in your notice. You won’t live to regret it.
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
Frostbite by Jill Palmer Review: A Gut-Punch of a Zombie Novel That Redefines Survival
Jill Palmer’s Frostbite is a masterclass in character-driven horror, proving the most terrifying apocalypse isn’t the monsters outside the gates but the inherited trauma found in a mother’s cold, calculating stare. It redefines survival as a brutal, hopeful act of choosing your own family.
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.
Heresy Review: Dutch Folk Horror That Chooses the Bear
Didier Konings’ Dutch folk horror debut pits medieval religious patriarchy against the dark power of Witte Wieven—and the bear looks surprisingly friendly.
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.”