Hailey Piper sits down with Ginger Nuts of Horror to discuss This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, her second novel steeped in Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow. She talks through the Toad Man, the cursed film at its centre, and why she calls horror the most honest genre. Titan Books publishes the cosmic horror on 15 September 2026.
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