Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 01/05/2022 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 01/05/2022

[Book Review] Mums and Sons (2022)

Horror films often have so much to show and tell us, it can be impossible to catch everything in a movie in just one viewing…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 07/03/2022 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 07/03/2022

[Book Review] Devil House (2022)

Books that you expect will scare you in one way but ultimately end up scaring you in a completely different way are often the most satisfying…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 18/02/2022 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 18/02/2022

[Book Review] It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited (2022)

It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited is an in-depth exploration of the horror film that influenced John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)…

Melissa Cox / Contributor 24/01/2022 Melissa Cox / Contributor 24/01/2022

[Book Review] How to Survive A Human Attack

The horror genre has a long and notable history of expressing sympathy for the devils and monsters whose tales it tells…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/12/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/12/2021

[Book Review] In the Cut (1995)

Despite its label as an erotic thriller, Susanna Moore's fourth novel In the Cut has such a nightmare-inducing plot and haunting imagery that it fits more closely into the horror genre…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 18/11/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 18/11/2021

[Book Review] Night Rooms (2021)

Gina Nutt artfully connects horror movies, horror books and the infamous "final girl" trope to events from her own life…

Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 13/10/2021 Rebecca McCallum / Assistant Editor 13/10/2021

[Book Review] The Final Girl Support Group

Final girls hold deep meaning and significance for horror fans, and author Grady Hendrix shows an acute understanding of this with his latest offering…

Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 30/09/2021 Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 30/09/2021

[Book Review] Sorrowland (2021)

Vern has escaped from Cainland. She’s pregnant. Through the woods, she flees from her husband, the Reverend Sherman, and from the cult-like settlement she grew up in…

Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 13/09/2021 Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 13/09/2021

[Book Review] Thin Places (2020)

Thin places are parts of the world where the barrier between clay and the mist is more fragile, where it can be broken . . .

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Book Review] Beyond the Pale Motel (2014)

Francesca Lia Block's books are always a mix of light and dark, magic and brutality. Best known for her Weetzie Bat young adult series, her work often illuminates both the grimness and glitter of Los Angeles…

Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021

[Book Review] My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)

Stephen Graham Jones made a big splash last year when his award-winning novel The Only Good Indians hit shelves…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021

[Book Review] Tomie (1987)

Manga artist Junji Ito, one of the pioneers of modern horror in manga, kick started his career with Tomie…

Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021

[Book Review] Velvet Was the Night (2021)

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) transports readers to Mexico City on June 10, 1971, the day of the Corpus Christi Massacre…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021

[Book Review] Tinfoil Butterfly (2019)

Emma is on a mission to see the Badlands, a mountainous stretch of rocky terrain in South Dakota. Along the way, she must contend with both murderous strangers and the ghosts of her own past…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021

[Book Review] Love Sickness (2021)

Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 30/07/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 30/07/2021

[Book Review] Mirrorland (2021)

There is no shortage of horror films about the complicated relationship between sisters, and earlier this year, a horror novel that focuses on this relationship was published…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/07/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/07/2021

[Book Review] Uzamaki (1998)

I opened the first page to the weird and crazy world that is Junji Ito. Before I knew it, I had finished the book….

Mae Murray / Contributor 03/07/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 03/07/2021

[Book Review] Castle Heights: 18 Storeys, 18 Stories

To that end, Castle Heights is undoubtedly successful, sure to entertain and inspire writers and readers of indie horror…

Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 29/06/2021 Zoë Rose Smith / Editor-in-Chief 29/06/2021

[Book Review] The Scream & Other Dark Stories

As a fellow extreme horror lover, author Jerry Sampson takes those themes of ‘darkness’ and weaves them throughout the book, yet never takes anything to the realm of unbelievable and misguided…

Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/06/2021 Melissa Cox / Contributor 28/06/2021

[Book Review] The Abyss Within (2020)

The Abyss Within is an anthology of new horror short stories, from SmashBear publishing…