Scares Across America Part V: South Dakota to Washington D.C.

Scares Across America Part V: South Dakota to Washington D.C.

Scares Across America Part V: South Dakota to Washington D.C.

Travel across America with the fifth and final installation of our compendium of horror books set in every state of the union (plus Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C.). […]

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January 18, 2022 Books

Into the Night: The Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry of 2021

Into the Night: The Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry of 2021

Let us guide you through the dark corridors of the best short horror fiction and poetry the internet had to offer in 2021, from our monthly series. […]

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January 14, 2022 Books

In Defense of Space Horror

In Defense of Space Horror

Dead Silence author S.A. Barnes explores how and why horror set in space works, contrary to what you may have heard on Twitter. […]

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January 12, 2022 Books, On Screen

This Month in New Horror Books: January 2022

This Month in New Horror Books: January 2022

Check out the scariest new horror books out in January 2022, featuring new books from V. Castro, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Golden, and more! […]

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January 3, 2022 Books

Read the First Two Chapters of Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Read the First Two Chapters of Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

S.A. Barnes’ terrifying space horror novel Dead Silence hits shelves on Feb 8th, 2022, but you can read the first two chapters now! […]

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December 20, 2021 Books

Remembering Bill Landis, the Late, Great Scholar of Sleaze

Remembering Bill Landis, the Late, Great Scholar of Sleaze

Biographer Preston Fassel reintroduces the man behind the myth, the grandfather of modern genre criticism, Mr. Sleazoid himself: Bill Landis. […]

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December 14, 2021 Books, On Screen

Zoje Stage’s Escapist Adventure Getaway Thrills in Small Stretches

Zoje Stage’s Escapist Adventure Getaway Thrills in Small Stretches

Zoje Stage’s backpacking thriller Getaway explores the limits of escapism, especially when the need for escape becomes frighteningly literal. […]

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December 9, 2021 Books

The Gift of Fear: 2021’s Best Gifts for Horror Fans

The Gift of Fear: 2021’s Best Gifts for Horror Fans

If you need the perfect gift for the horror reader in your life, these 30+ 2021 horror books will guarantee you champion gift-giver status. […]

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December 6, 2021 Books, On Screen

This Month in New Horror Books: December 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: December 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in December 2021, featuring new books from Samantha Kolesnik, Alex White, Victoria Nelson, and more! […]

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December 1, 2021 Books

Scares Across America Part IV: New Mexico to South Carolina

Scares Across America Part IV: New Mexico to South Carolina

Travel across America with the fourth installation of our compendium of horror books set in every state of the union (plus Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C.). […]

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November 22, 2021 Books

Escape Rooms: 6 Intense Closed-Circle Horror Books

Escape Rooms: 6 Intense Closed-Circle Horror Books

Six books that provide a great entry into the subgenre of closed-loop or closed-room horror, where events are confined to a finite space. […]

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November 18, 2021 Books

Announcing Tell Me I’m Worthless, A New Novel from Alison Rumfitt

Announcing Tell Me I’m Worthless, A New Novel from Alison Rumfitt

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless–an unflinching haunted house novel about fascism and the modern day trans experience–will be published by Nightfire in January 2023! […]

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November 17, 2021 Books, News

All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022

All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022

Get your TBR list ready: we’ve rounded up all of 2022’s new horror books from Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu, Gabino Iglesias, Sara Gran, Cassandra Khaw, and many more! […]

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November 15, 2021 Books

Announcing The Salt Grows Heavy, A New Novella from Cassandra Khaw

Announcing The Salt Grows Heavy, A New Novella from Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy – a sharp, hungry mermaid tale full of creeping dread and delicious gore – will be published by Nightfire in May 2023! […]

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November 10, 2021 Books, News

This Month in New Horror Books: November 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: November 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in November 2021, featuring new books from Kim Newman, Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ellen Datlow, Louise Erdrich, and more! […]

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November 1, 2021 Books

Introducing Gwendolyn Kiste’s Reluctant Immortals

Introducing Gwendolyn Kiste’s Reluctant Immortals

We’re thrilled to share the cover and an exclusive excerpt from Gwendolyn Kiste’s Reluctant Immortals, coming August 2022 from Saga! […]

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November 1, 2021 Books

Fearful Felines: The Ten Spookiest Cats of Horror Fiction and Film

Fearful Felines: The Ten Spookiest Cats of Horror Fiction and Film

The horror genre has more than its fair share of spooky felines. In honor of Samhain, here are ten horror cats of film and page who deserve their eerie due.   […]

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October 28, 2021 Books, On Screen

A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel

A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel

Last One at the Party author Bethany Clift explores the indefinability of horror, her own formative experiences with fear, & realizing she’d written a horror novel. […]

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October 21, 2021 Books

Eight Strange Tales of Appalachian Gothic Weirdness

Eight Strange Tales of Appalachian Gothic Weirdness

With its strange history, isolated communities, and a sense of place all its own, Appalachia represents the perfect backdrop for a uniquely American brand of folk horror. […]

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October 20, 2021 Books

Ellen Datlow’s Body Shocks Will Make You Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin

Ellen Datlow’s Body Shocks Will Make You Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin

Body Shocks, edited by Ellen Datlow, contains 29 skin-crawling tales of body horror from Carmen Maria Machado, Brian Evenson, Alyssa Wong, and many more. […]

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October 19, 2021 Books

Old Ghosts and New Traumas Stalk Stuart Neville’s House of Ashes

Old Ghosts and New Traumas Stalk Stuart Neville’s House of Ashes

In The House of Ashes, Stuart Neville’s first standalone novel in almost a decade, the greatest gift that one woman can offer another is to believe her. […]

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October 18, 2021 Books

No One Here Knows I’m a Vampire: A Spooky Matt Berry Reading List

No One Here Knows I’m a Vampire: A Spooky Matt Berry Reading List

In honor of the funniest man on television, the list you never knew you needed: what to read next based on your favorite Matt Berry project. […]

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October 14, 2021 Books, On Screen

Frankenstein’s Manuscript, or: How to Write Satisfying Crossover Horror

Frankenstein’s Manuscript, or: How to Write Satisfying Crossover Horror

The Death of Jane Lawrence author Caitlin Starling offers writing tips for creating crossover horror that respects both genres. […]

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October 6, 2021 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: October 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: October 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in October 2021, featuring new books from Cassandra Khaw, Rachel Harrison, Caitlin Starling, Christopher Golden, Josh Malerman, and more! […]

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October 1, 2021 Books

Richard Chizmar is Still Chasing the Boogeyman Decades Later

Richard Chizmar is Still Chasing the Boogeyman Decades Later

Richard Chizmar talks Cemetery Dance, true crime, and his latest novel Chasing the Boogeyman in a new interview. […]

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September 29, 2021 Books

Alex Pheby’s Trope-Shredding Mordew is Gothic Fantasy at Its Finest

Alex Pheby’s Trope-Shredding Mordew is Gothic Fantasy at Its Finest

Mordew’s insistence on subverting familiar genre tropes about power and magic makes it a can’t-miss read for dark fantasy fans. […]

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September 20, 2021 Books

Announcing Maeve Fly, a Debut Novel from CJ Leede

Announcing Maeve Fly, a Debut Novel from CJ Leede

CJ Leede’s Maeve Fly, a provocative blend of transgressive horror, upmarket thriller, and slasher romance, will be published by Nightfire in Summer 2023! […]

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September 15, 2021 Books, News

Lover’s Leap and Vana Mohini: Ghost Stories from Sri Lanka

Lover’s Leap and Vana Mohini: Ghost Stories from Sri Lanka

Amanda Jayatissa introduces some of Sri Lanka’s spookiest ghost stories & haunted locations, including Vana Mohini, featured in her new novel My Sweet Girl. […]

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September 13, 2021 Books

My Heart is a Chainsaw is an Anthem for Slasher Superfans

My Heart is a Chainsaw is an Anthem for Slasher Superfans

Stephen Graham Jones’ newest novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw, is a masterclass in voice and character and a love letter to the slasher genre. […]

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September 8, 2021 Books