Sleek, deadly and paced like a runaway train, Victorian Psycho is an absolutely delectable mashup of horror sensibilities.
Sleek, deadly and paced like a runaway train, Victorian Psycho is an absolutely delectable mashup of horror sensibilities.
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Lucy Rose’s horror-folktale hybrid, The Lamb, is hypnotic, grotesque and beautiful all at once.
Lucy Rose’s horror-folktale hybrid, The Lamb, is hypnotic, grotesque and beautiful all at once.
With a sharp sense of dark humor and a stunning voice, Neena Viel uses well-worn horror tropes in deliciously terrifying ways in her debut, Listen to Your Sister.
With a sharp sense of dark humor and a stunning voice, Neena Viel uses well-worn horror tropes in deliciously terrifying ways in her debut, Listen to Your Sister.
Camilla Bruce’s cathartic At the Bottom of the Garden uses the trappings of gothic horror to wrestle with the meaning of death.
Camilla Bruce’s cathartic At the Bottom of the Garden uses the trappings of gothic horror to wrestle with the meaning of death.
We loved both of S.A. Barnes’ previous sci-fi horror novels and cannot wait for her next terrifying excursion into the black. Cold Eternity’s setting is terrifying even by Barnes’ high standards: a space barge full of cryogenically frozen people, populated only by one woman on the run and the barge’s creepy AI hologram “hosts.”
We loved both of S.A. Barnes’ previous sci-fi horror novels and cannot wait for her next terrifying excursion into the black. Cold Eternity’s setting is terrifying even by Barnes’ high standards: a space barge full of cryogenically frozen people, populated only by one woman on…
With the rise of the dark academia aesthetic, there have been a whole passel of fantasy novels set at magical schools. If anyone can take the trope in a new and terrifying direction, it’s horror author Cassandra Khaw, the bloodthirsty genius behind Nothing But Blackened Teeth and The Dead Take the A Train.
With the rise of the dark academia aesthetic, there have been a whole passel of fantasy novels set at magical schools. If anyone can take the trope in a new and terrifying direction, it’s horror author Cassandra Khaw, the bloodthirsty genius behind Nothing But…
It’s been more than eight years since Joe Hill published a novel, but fans of the Locus and Eisner Award-winning writer can look forward to a fifth full-length work of fiction in 2025. (And for Hill, “full-length” is likely to be at least 500 pages—he is, after all, a son of Stephen King.) While plot details are scant this early on, King Sorrow sounds like a fantasy-horror hybrid, a la Hill’s debut, Horns, as it tells the story of six friends who dabble in the occult and summon something rather unexpected.
It’s been more than eight years since Joe Hill published a novel, but fans of the Locus and Eisner Award-winning writer can look forward to a fifth full-length work of fiction in 2025. (And for Hill, “full-length” is likely to be at least 500 pages—he…
Horror maestro Chuck Wendig’s latest doorstopper feels slightly Stephen King-esque: Five high school friends on a camping trip discover a staircase to nowhere in the middle of the forest. One walks up and never comes down, so when the staircase reappears 20 years later, the four remaining band together to rescue their lost friend from . . . whatever is up there.
Horror maestro Chuck Wendig’s latest doorstopper feels slightly Stephen King-esque: Five high school friends on a camping trip discover a staircase to nowhere in the middle of the forest. One walks up and never comes down, so when the staircase reappears 20 years later, the…
The everyday horrors of a home for unwed mothers in the 1970s mingle with the supernatural in the latest eerie release from the bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.
The everyday horrors of a home for unwed mothers in the 1970s mingle with the supernatural in the latest eerie release from the bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.
Henry James’ famously ambiguous horror novella is an undiluted sliver of dread.
Henry James’ famously ambiguous horror novella is an undiluted sliver of dread.
Andy Marino rides the balance between good horrific fun and grisly speculation in The Swarm, a tale of a cicada emergence of biblical proportions.
Andy Marino rides the balance between good horrific fun and grisly speculation in The Swarm, a tale of a cicada emergence of biblical proportions.
The Queen reaffirms Nick Cutter’s place as one of the horror genre’s most entertaining storytellers.
The Queen reaffirms Nick Cutter’s place as one of the horror genre’s most entertaining storytellers.
Rivers Solomon’s Model Home is a powerful and gut-wrenching addition to the haunted house pantheon.
Rivers Solomon’s Model Home is a powerful and gut-wrenching addition to the haunted house pantheon.
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