Announcing Black Flame, A New Novella from Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Announcing Black Flame, A New Novella from Gretchen Felker-Martin
Announcing Black Flame, A New Novella from Gretchen Felker-Martin
Nightfire has acquired three more projects from acclaimed Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin. Black Flame is set to publish in 2025, promising a bright future ahead for queer horror! […]
August 16, 2023 Books, News
Announcing The Night Guest, a novella from Hildur Knútsdóttir
Announcing The Night Guest, a novella from Hildur Knútsdóttir
Announcing The Night Guest Nightfire is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake […]
March 16, 2023 Books, News
Announcing THE CREEK GIRL, A new novel from Wendy N. Wagner
Announcing THE CREEK GIRL, A new novel from Wendy N. Wagner
Announcing THE CREEK GIRL Photo by US Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr Nightfire is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Wendy N. Wagner’s The Creek Girl, a tense cli-fi […]
March 3, 2023 Books, News
Announcing RED RABBIT, A new novel from ALEX GRECIAN
Announcing RED RABBIT, A new novel from ALEX GRECIAN
A ragtag posse tracks down the infamous witch Sadie Grace through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts, in this folk horror epic where death is always just around the bend. […]
February 1, 2023 Books, News
Announcing A Mask of Flies, A New Novel from Matthew Lyons
Announcing A Mask of Flies, A New Novel from Matthew Lyons
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! […]
December 15, 2022 Books, News
In Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw Creates a Modern Mythology
In Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw Creates a Modern Mythology
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 […]
November 28, 2022 Books
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: The Midnight Club and Queer Personhood
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: The Midnight Club and Queer Personhood
How Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club introduced one reader to queer agency and the grand tradition of queer horror stories. […]
November 15, 2022 Books, On Screen
The Longest, Darkest Night: Stephanie Feldman and M. Rickert on Holiday Horror
The Longest, Darkest Night: Stephanie Feldman and M. Rickert on Holiday Horror
M. Rickert and Stephanie Feldman discuss holiday ghost stories, the persistence of the past, and their new holiday horror books, Saturnalia and Lucky Girl. […]
November 14, 2022 Books
The Haunting of Camp Winter Falcon is Full of Sharp Teeth and Sharper Truths
The Haunting of Camp Winter Falcon is Full of Sharp Teeth and Sharper Truths
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. […]
November 4, 2022 Books
Announcing Schrader’s Chord, A Debut Novel from Scott Leeds
Announcing Schrader’s Chord, A Debut Novel from Scott Leeds
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! […]
October 27, 2022 Books, News
How Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh Warps Your Brain with Language
How Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh Warps Your Brain with Language
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. […]
October 24, 2022 Books
How Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes Resurrected America’s Invisible Women
How Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes Resurrected America’s Invisible Women
Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes’ new nonfiction book on the afterlife of America’s women is an enlightening, infuriating look into our past. […]
October 7, 2022 Books
This Month in New Horror Books: October 2022
This Month in New Horror Books: October 2022
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! […]
October 3, 2022 Books
Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror
Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror
Leech author Hiron Ennes writes about the terrifying history of medicine and the peculiarly intimate horror of having a mortal body. […]
September 28, 2022 Books
Introducing The Shoemaker’s Magician, Cynthia Pelayo’s Follow-Up to Children of Chicago
Introducing The Shoemaker’s Magician, Cynthia Pelayo’s Follow-Up to Children of Chicago
Cynthia Pelayo introduces the cover of The Shoemaker’s Magician, the second book in her Chicago Saga that started with Children of Chicago. […]
September 22, 2022 Books, On Screen
Parasocial Delusion: Welcome to the Basement of Your Number One Fan
Parasocial Delusion: Welcome to the Basement of Your Number One Fan
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. […]
August 30, 2022 Books
Tales from the Backlist: Necroscope’s Focus on Consent Recontextualizes 80s Horror
Tales from the Backlist: Necroscope’s Focus on Consent Recontextualizes 80s Horror
Brian Lumley’s classic Cold War vampire thriller approaches consent (both physical and mental) in a surprisingly modern way. […]
August 16, 2022 Books
Beneath the Ground and Under the Skin: Three Contemporary Novels That Reimagine the Gothic
Beneath the Ground and Under the Skin: Three Contemporary Novels That Reimagine the Gothic
How three contemporary novels–Mexican Gothic, Abigale Hall, and Leech–build new structures on traditional Gothic foundations. […]
August 11, 2022 Books
The Long History (and Bright Future) of the Found Footage Horror Novel
The Long History (and Bright Future) of the Found Footage Horror Novel
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. […]
July 28, 2022 Books, On Screen
Other Terrors and Terror of the Other: A New Anthology Examines the Duality of Horror
Other Terrors and Terror of the Other: A New Anthology Examines the Duality of Horror
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. […]
July 20, 2022 Books
Reclaiming the “F” Word: Why We Need Fat Positivity in Horror
Reclaiming the “F” Word: Why We Need Fat Positivity in Horror
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. […]
June 23, 2022 Books, On Screen
