This Month in New Horror Books: November 2021

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

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

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

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

Broken Windows to the Soul: 5 Books Featuring Eye Horror

Broken Windows to the Soul: 5 Books Featuring Eye Horror

Eric LaRocca’s most recent novella asked the question “What have you done today to deserve your eyes?” Now he rounds up five horror books about all the horrible things that can happen to your delicate eyeballs. […]

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September 7, 2021 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: September 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: September 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in September 2021, featuring new books from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Catriona Ward, John Langan, Eric LaRocca, and more! […]

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September 1, 2021 Books

Revelator Captures the Horror of Men, Monsters, and the Women Caught In Between

Revelator Captures the Horror of Men, Monsters, and the Women Caught In Between

Daryl Gregory’s unnerving Southern Gothic novel Revelator is a beautiful, disquieting work of folk horror about the evil that men do. […]

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August 31, 2021 Books

Red X is a Relentless Urban Nightmare Full of Heart and Righteous Fury

Red X is a Relentless Urban Nightmare Full of Heart and Righteous Fury

David Demchuk’s Red X traces a series of murders in Toronto’s Gay Village that span centuries, perpetrated and aided by forces both supernatural and mundane. […]

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August 30, 2021 Books

Megan Abbott’s The Turnout Stars Ballerina Sisters in a Horrifying Dance of Sex and Death

Megan Abbott’s The Turnout Stars Ballerina Sisters in a Horrifying Dance of Sex and Death

Megan Abbott’s latest novel, The Turnout, set at a ballet academy run by polar-opposite sisters, doesn’t shy away from the gruesome truths and secrets between women. […]

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August 23, 2021 Books

Author Zoje Stage Gives Us a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Getaway

Author Zoje Stage Gives Us a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Getaway

Author Zoje Stage gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the equipment used in her Grand Canyon-set horror thriller, Getaway. […]

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August 18, 2021 Books

Announcing Screams From the Dark, a New Anthology Edited by Ellen Datlow

Announcing Screams From the Dark, a New Anthology Edited by Ellen Datlow

Screams From the Dark, a thrilling anthology featuring new tales of monsters compiled & edited by Ellen Datlow, will be published by Nightfire in June 2022! […]

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August 11, 2021 Books, News

Announcing Mary, a New Novel from Nat Cassidy

Announcing Mary, a New Novel from Nat Cassidy

Nat Cassidy’s debut horror novel Mary, which blends Midsommar, American Psycho, and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, will be published by Nightfire in July 2022! […]

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August 9, 2021 Books, News

Unhappily Ever After: 6 Terrifying Reimagined Fairy Tales

Unhappily Ever After: 6 Terrifying Reimagined Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are the original horror stories – here are six books of reimagined fairy tales and folklore that will unnerve, disturb, and delight you. […]

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August 5, 2021 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: August 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: August 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in August 2021, featuring new books from Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, Hailey Piper, Zoje Stage, & more! […]

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August 2, 2021 Books

The Book of Accidents Cements Chuck Wendig’s Status as a Master of Horror

The Book of Accidents Cements Chuck Wendig’s Status as a Master of Horror

This book has two fucking prologues. Two. You may just want to stand back a few feet from this review, because it might get a little cussy and I tend […]

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July 20, 2021 Books

Scares Across America Part III: Massachusetts to New Jersey

Scares Across America Part III: Massachusetts to New Jersey

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

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July 19, 2021 Books

Big Dark Hole is Jeffrey Ford at His Hallucinatory Best

Big Dark Hole is Jeffrey Ford at His Hallucinatory Best

Jeffrey Ford’s latest story collection a heartfelt, weird, and melancholy tour of the furthest reaches of the author’s imagination. […]

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July 15, 2021 Books

Read Olivia’s Story From The Last House on Needless Street

Read Olivia’s Story From The Last House on Needless Street

We’re thrilled to share an exclusive excerpt from Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street in three pieces from Tor.com, Nightfire, and the Tor/Forge blog! […]

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July 14, 2021 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: July 2021

This Month in New Horror Books: July 2021

Check out the scariest new horror books out in July 2021, featuring new books from Jeffrey Ford, Grady Hendrix, Beth Morgan, Ryan Douglass, Chuck Wendig, and more! […]

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July 1, 2021 Books

Announcing What Moves the Dead, a New Novella from T. Kingfisher

Announcing What Moves the Dead, a New Novella from T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead, a terrifying reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” will be published by Nightfire in Summer 2022! […]

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June 28, 2021 Books, News

Moon Lake is a Genre-Bending Horror Noir with Heart

Moon Lake is a Genre-Bending Horror Noir with Heart

Joe R. Lansdale’s newest novel Moon Lake blends horror, crime, noir, and southern gothic in a tantalizing summer read. […]

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June 22, 2021 Books

Announcing Where Black Stars Rise, a New Graphic Novel from Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger

Announcing Where Black Stars Rise, a New Graphic Novel from Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger

Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger’s Where Black Stars Rise, a graphic novel reimagining of The King in Yellow in modern-day Brooklyn, will be published by Nightfire in October 2022! […]

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June 9, 2021 Books, News

Announcing Sister, Maiden, Monster, a New Novel from Lucy A. Snyder

Announcing Sister, Maiden, Monster, a New Novel from Lucy A. Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster, set in the aftermath of the planet’s disastrous transformation by a virus that radically alters its victims & told through the eyes of three women, will be published by Nightfire in Fall 2022! […]

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June 3, 2021 Books, News