Tag: books

Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Silverberg Business is a masterclass in the art and science of the weird Western. […]

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An eight-book primer to the haunting genre of southwestern gothic horror, a roadmap to the strange, sinister places of the west.  […]

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2022 was an incredible year for horror short fiction–here are nine of the year’s best anthologies and single-author collections. […]

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Matthew Lyons’ A Mask of Flies – a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and Reservoir Dogs, with a pinch of The Evil Dead – will be published by Nightfire in Summer 2024! […]

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We’ve sorted through a cookbook’s worth of unappetizing food to create a tasting menu of some of the worst meals in horror fiction. Bon appétit! […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in December 2022, featuring new books from Rachel Harrison, V. Castro, Ellen Datlow, Luke Dumas, Christina Sng, and more! […]

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Breakable Things, the new short story collection by Cassandra Khaw, is a book of modern myths–not in the sense that it updates older tales for the modern day, but in […]

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How Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club introduced one reader to queer agency and the grand tradition of queer horror stories. […]

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M. Rickert and Stephanie Feldman discuss holiday ghost stories, the persistence of the past, and their new holiday horror books, Saturnalia and Lucky Girl. […]

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This month’s ebook deals include can’t-miss prices on books by P. Djèlí Clark, Catriona Ward, and Nina Nesse […]

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The Haunting of Camp Winter Falcon, a surreal cosmic horror story about an experimental treatment program for traumatized vets, is the most disturbing thing Jonathan Raab has written – and the best. […]

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From classic monsters to horrifying colors, here are five of the best themed horror anthologies of 2022. […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in November 2022, featuring new books from V. Castro, Cassandra Khaw, Erika Wurth, Chuck Wendig, and more! […]

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The Haunting of Hill House meets We Sold Our Souls in Schrader’s Chord, a chilling debut from Scott Leeds about cursed records that open a gateway to the land of the dead, coming from Nightfire in September 2023! […]

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Every good horror fan knows not to go in the basement, but there’s a good argument for staying out of cabins, too. Here are seven of the creepiest. […]

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Agustina Bazterrica’s acclaimed dystopian novel masterfully uses the artificially neutral language of fascism to immerse the reader in the same moral dilemma as its characters. […]

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Bram Stoker nominated author Eric LaRocca’s debut novel Everything the Darkness Eats hits shelves in June 2023–here’s a sneak preview. […]

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The Hollow Kind author Andy Davidson on childhood, forgetting and remembering, and the subtle, melancholy horror of nostalgia. […]

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Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes’ new nonfiction book on the afterlife of America’s women is an enlightening, infuriating look into our past. […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in October 2022, featuring new books from Catriona Ward, Rachel Harrison, Jennifer Thorne, Ronald Malfi, Cynthia Pelayo, Andy Davidson, and more! […]

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Leech author Hiron Ennes writes about the terrifying history of medicine and the peculiarly intimate horror of having a mortal body. […]

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Cynthia Pelayo introduces the cover of The Shoemaker’s Magician, the second book in her Chicago Saga that started with Children of Chicago. […]

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Ten slasher novels both old and new, well-known and obscure, to keep your spine tingling all the way through spooky season. […]

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Download a free sneak peek of Little Eve, Catriona Ward’s chilling new psychological horror novel, from your favorite retailer. […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in September 2022, featuring new books from Clay McLeod Chapman, Hailey Piper, Eric LaRocca, Gemma Amor, Josh Malerman, and more! […]

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Number One Fan author Meg Elison explores the parasocial paradox between creator and fan, and how easily it slips into a toxic–and even deadly–dynamic. […]

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Brian Lumley’s classic Cold War vampire thriller approaches consent (both physical and mental) in a surprisingly modern way. […]

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How three contemporary novels–Mexican Gothic, Abigale Hall, and Leech–build new structures on traditional Gothic foundations. […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in August 2022, featuring new books from Gabino Iglesias, Megan Giddings, Gwendolyn Kiste, Adam Cesare, and more! […]

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The “found footage” horror story is a popular genre for filmmakers, but there’s more of it in the literary world than you’d think–Nightmare Fuel author Nina Nesseth explores this slippery subgenre. […]

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Haunted houses never die–here are just a few of the elements that make for an indelible haunted house story. […]

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Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason, editors of the Other Terrors anthology, on why horror is the perfect lens to examine otherness, drawing inspiration from the Final Girl, and more. […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in July 2022, featuring new books from T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Paul Tremblay, and more! […]

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Nico Bell and Sonora Taylor, editors of Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, lay out why we need better fat representation in horror, and how to do it right. […]

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Nightmare Fuel author Nina Nesseth suggests five novels to pair perfectly with five subgenres of horror movie, from The Bay to American Psycho. […]

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A starter selection of nine amazing horror novels from around the world and recently translated into English to start you off right.  […]

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T. Kingfisher’s Poe-inspired novella What Moves the Dead hits shelves on July 12, 2022, but you can read the first two chapters now! […]

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Check out the scariest new horror books out in June 2022, featuring new books from Ellen Datlow, Riley Sager, Eric LaRocca, Craig Laurance Gidney, and more! […]

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Bethany C. Morrow’s thrilling novel of race and social status is a cerebral, gripping narrative of a very dark friendship. […]

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The founder of the HOWL Society and editor of Howls From the Dark Ages talks about creating an anthology out of a community of horror enthusiasts. […]

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