Michael Wehunt’s smart and creepy metafictional horror novel provides equal parts fear and pathos
Wehunt peppers his story with observations about the horror genre and how it operates.
Fear factor: Behavioural scientist Coltan Scrivner explains why horror may be good for us in Morbidly Curious
Scrivner suggests that people have a certain "sweet spot" when it comes to how frightened they like to be.
Trad wives and demon children: Eleanor Johnson examines the ways in which 1970s horror films dovetailed with 2nd wave feminism
Rosemary's Baby provides an entrée for Johnson to discuss five other films she collects under the umbrella of what she refers to as "domestic horror."
Going viral: A group of isolated scientists encounters a strange “specimen” in Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me
What Gailey has produced owes less to Ridley Scott's Alien than to John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing.
Night riders: Keith Rosson’s latest is a vampire novel crossed with a bloody revenge thriller
The lexicon of organized crime is one way in which Rosson blurs the distinction between horror and crime genres in his book.
Wrath of God: CJ Leede imagines the end of the world via a plague and a sect of murderous Catholic crusaders
American Rapture is a blood-soaked, ultra-violent allegory about the hypocrisies and inhumanity of our current political moment.
Gas, food, mayhem: Nat Cassidy unleashes a tight, brutal reading experience in his novella Rest Stop
Those who prefer their horror straight up, with no chaser, should definitely check this one out.
Extremely online: Two new novels explore the brutal nihilism of digital addiction and its effects
rekt tells much the same story as Feeders, but from a dude's perspective.
Choice cuts: In The Butcher’s Daughter, Canadian writers David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clarke reimagine one of Broadway’s nastiest bakers
The Butcher's Daughter may best be enjoyed by those unfamiliar with The String of Pearls or the musical Sweeney Todd.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 26: “Pending Licensor Approval” by Adam Cesare
"Pending Licensor Approval" is structured largely as a conversation between a writer and a bartender.