Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is the nerdiest horror film ever made. With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and more slasher trivia than you can shake a split diopter at, this queer horror masterpiece is bloody, beautiful, and utterly compelling.
Summer Coven brings Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor’s married vampire detectives back to Trident Falls for a second cozy paranormal mystery, this time knotted up with the Celestine Coven and a poisoned pet psychic. In our Dead & Breakfast interview, the pair explain what it costs to make horror’s oldest monster cosy, and where the fear goes when nobody is scared of the vampire any more.
Henry Corrigan’s Party of a Lifetime strands four queer friends in Monotony, a 1950s hell town that reshapes itself around their nightmares and slowly reshapes them too. This is body horror written with a mechanic’s patience, with a narcissistic mother at the centre of it, and it is the best thing Corrigan has written.
My review of Splasher by Billie Host, the 2006-set supernatural slasher where a haunted university pool picks off a swim team one accident at a time. Queer horror, Y2K nostalgia and a genuine ghost story grief engine make this a slasher novel that remembers to feel.
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.
AV Wilkes steps beyond the polar ice with Old Gods, a micro-collection of five reprinted cosmic and folk horror stories. From an 1881 whaling ship to a vampire-haunted seaside hotel, this is queer horror with real tenderness and a deep cold running through every page.
Between Strange Extremes, a Pride 2024 Special My Life in Horror The current efflorescence of queer … Between Strange Extremes, a Pride 2024 Special My Life in HorrorRead more
