Olivie Blake’s Dreamland sends an aspiring actress into a cursed Hollywood dynasty during a Los Angeles summer of murders and Santa Ana winds. A formally daring literary horror novel that fuses the gothic estate with the machinery of modern celebrity, even if the back half loosens its grip.
A.J. Vane argues that ambiguous horror is not a cop-out but the hardest thing the genre can do. Drawing on Robert Aickman, Shirley Jackson and Picnic at Hanging Rock, this guest essay defends the unexplained ending and the fear that keeps working long after the book is shut. From the author of The Night Fair.
Bram Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste delivers a haunting queer horror retelling of The Great Gatsby in In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts, following Daisy Buchanan’s daughter as she confronts her mother’s ghost and the still-grasping fingers of Jay Gatsby. This sapphic Gothic novella explores grief, legacy, and the hunger of a house that feeds on unfulfilled love.
Luke Dumas unpacks the fat shame and cannibal cravings driving his Ozempic-era body horror Nothing Tastes as Good. From stolen paperbacks to Mounjaro prescriptions, this interview confronts the hunger beneath the weight-loss drug phenomenon and the mask we hand to strangers.
