Make Me Better, the latest novel from genre star Sarah Gailey, emerges in a place you think you can predict. It begins with some classic genre...
Watching Faces of Death is a fascinating experience in 2026, made even more fascinating by the release of a reboot film that plays with the original’s...
Damian McCarthy‘s films are obsessed with ghosts. They lurk everywhere in his first three features – Caveat, Oddity, and the just-released Hokum – driving the plot,...
We’re right on the cusp of Summer Reading season, but you don’t have to wait for the beach to assemble a truly impressive stack of must-read...
Stephen King is not just the most famous and bestselling author of his generation. He’s also arguably the most-discussed author of his generation, because his work...
So much Gothic fiction is steeped in the peculiarities of time and memory, the myriad ways each of these elements can lie to us, change us,...
Sometimes I think that we genre fans who cling to cult and exploitation cinema and eagerly await new disc releases feel like the only audience for...
Among a certain crop of genre fans, Mimic has reached a status almost as legendary as Guillermo del Toro‘s still-unmade adaptation of At the Mountains of...
One of the great joys of any horror story is settling into a tale of well-worn tropes and scenarios and finding that they still have something...
What if the guy who finds the mermaid washed up onshore isn’t a hopeless romantic or a courageous prince? What if he’s just…some guy, living a...
We’re officially in Halfway to Halloween season, and horror publishing is picking up the pace as we get deeper into 2026. We’ve got much more ahead...
When horror fans talk about The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson‘s wildly entertaining and stunningly elegant prequel to The Omen, they tend to focus on one scene...
At this point, it’s a cliché to drop a phrase like “No one’s doing it like Attila Veres,” but clichés become clichés because they’re true. With...
When we talk about the work of Eric LaRocca, we tend to think in terms of the extreme, and when we think about extreme horror, we...
Commitment is vital to a good horror story. As with good comedy and good romance, it’s one of those things an audience can sense as soon...
It’s not hard at all to see why body horror is having another moment. It’s a subgenre built on exploring loss of control, the rebellion of...
Nuzo Onoh is one of the most important voices in 21st-century horror. Over more than a decade, she’s been a trailblazing voice in the field of...
One of the enduring appeals of Bram Stoker’s Dracula comes not in the primary narrative, but in the sense that we’ve sunk hip deep into one...
The publishing year is now well underway, which means the cadence is picking up on titles everywhere. The winter lull is over, so now it’s time...
Let’s get this out of the way right at the top: A “noseeum” (or “no-see-um”) is a nickname for a type of fly, a biting midge...
Crack open any Lindy Ryan novel (there are three now), and you’ll immediately understand why she’s risen to become one of the most popular voices in...
In the nearly 30 years since its release, Event Horizon has built a constantly growing fanbase with its mix of science fiction, cosmic horror, and pure...
Catriona Ward writes transportive fiction that, regardless of setting, always feels like a peek into some other world. It’s a relatable world, to be sure, but...
If you’ve seen 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, you know that one needle drop holds sway over all others in the film. The climactic sequence,...
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