Winter Tide Dives Deep into the Litany and Legacy of Lovecraft
After the Federal raids on Innsmouth and the destruction of Deep Reef in 1928, the survivors of the Federal Government’s…
Horror
Relics Unearths Fresh Horrors from Beneath London
What amazing new terrors await you in London? Some of the biggest names in science fiction have come up with myriad…
Chalk Explores the Surreal Horror of Adolescence
Chalk, the new novel by Paul Cornell, is the kind of book you stay up nights reading because you need to find…
A Perfect Machine Is the Best Sci-Fi Movie You’ve Never Seen
A Perfect Machine, the third novel by former ChiZine Press co-publisher Brett Savory, might be the best sci-fi action film you’ve…
Universal Harvester Finds True Horror in Loss and Regret
Universal Harvester, the second novel by Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle following 2014’s National Book Award-nominated Wolf in White Van,…
The Best Horror Books of 2016
This year was an interesting one for horror. Not only did genre fans see new books from established heavy hitters, they welcomed a…
The Motion of Puppets Will Amaze, Surprise, And Horrify You All At Once
The Motion of Puppets, the new novel by Keith Donohue, left me stunned silence. Not because I found the book especially disturbing…
Extreme Makeover Puts the Apocalypse on Its Skin
Most of us would like change at least one thing about our bodies. Maybe we’d like to be a little taller,…
Guest Post: People Out of Sync, by Alex White (Every Mountain Made Low)
Alex White’s debut novel, Every Mountain Made Low (out now from Solaris) is about Loxley Fiddleback, a woman whose entire life…
The Enduring Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft, Genre’s Crazy Racist Uncle
I’ve been fascinated with Penguin Classic editions ever since I was a little kid—something about the brightly colored spines and that cheerful…
Certain Dark Things Is Urban Vampire Noir With Bite
A good Halloween read must embody number of key qualities: dark, of course, but not too bleak, with a little pep in…
9 New Horror Books to Keep You Terrified Until Halloween
It’s October, and an odd energy hangs in the air. The days have grown shorter, and evenings have taken on…
Gabriel Squailia’s Viscera Is the Weirdest Book You’ll Read This Year
There exists the possibility Gabriel Squailia’s Viscera won’t be the weirdest thing you read this year. But it’s a very, very tiny one. In…
Politics Is a Real Horrorshow in Mira Grant’s Feedback
In 2010, Seanan McGuire donned the pen name of Mira Grant and gave us Feed, an enthralling political zombie thriller…
Why I Created Jack Sparks, the Loathsome Liar, by Jason Arnopp
Jack Sparks, the eponymous narrator of The Last Days of Jack Sparks (a cracking read, and one of our favorite…
The Family Plot Is a Seriously Spine-Tingling Haunted House Tale
I hail from the deep South, where crickets and frogs sing the soundtrack of the night, and oak trees blanketed…
The Last Days of Jack Sparks Updates Horror for the Meta Age
Jason Arnopp is one of those writers who remains largely unknown in geek circles, despite a lengthy career working on stuff…
In Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, It’s Growing Up That Is Truly Terrifying
In Paul Tremblay’s latest novel, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, a 13-year-old named Tommy Sanderson goes missing. His vanishing pulls his family into a…