BOOK REVIEWS

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison: Time Loop Horror at Its Sharpest

Rachel Harrison’s Kiss Slay Replay traps wedding guest Willa Sullivan in a time loop with a masked killer and her own regrets. Our review of 2026’s standout slasher explores how the Queen of Contemporary Horror turned anxiety itself into the monster.

by Jim Mcleod•4 September 20264 September 2026

INTERVIEWS

An Interview with Rachel Harrison: You Keep Waking Up and It’s Still a Massacre

Rachel Harrison sits down to talk Kiss Slay Replay, the wedding weekend time loop horror that follows Play Nice and Such Sharp Teeth. She explains why she never set out to write a slasher, what the loop is really processing, and how a Blink-182 song and a Virgo’s fear of losing control fed the book. It is a horror comedy interview about grief, choreography, and stubborn hope.