“The Brides,” by @charlottecross.bsky.social feels as though it has been stored for a century in a dusty writing desk before being pressed into my eager hands. A reverent and rebellious Dracula prequel well worth your time. March 19th @torbooksuk.bsky.social July 7th @harpercollins.bsky.social

A #Burngreave Councillor has spoken out about the violence at #FirValeAcademy last month, which saw a member of staff carried out on a stretcher. Latest on @shef-live.bsky.social here: ⬇️ shef-live.co.uk/index.php/20... #Sheffield

Concentrated doses of cruelty, discomfort, and sorrow, written as well as one would expect, whilst I have no doubt @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social can handle 1000 pages, We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone, goes to show he is equally capable of making you just as uneasy in 10. @titanbooks.bsky.social

Our freshest ep of Fearmongers is now live and listenable! Fostering Your Horror Community w/ Lindy Ryan, V. Castro, Saratoga Schaefer & Chris Panatier Apple: bit.ly/471bMT5 Spotify: bit.ly/4rDvo8d Amazon: bit.ly/4rBHtL5 YouTube: bit.ly/4aBfXaz

In her funny and vicious debut, “For Human Use,” Pierce wields discomfort intelligently and makes the unthinkable imaginable- all without collapsing into mere shock, provocation or its own audacity. fanfiaddict.com/review-for-h...

One actual bit of journalism completed. It’s about freezers.

A novel muted by design “We Spread,” by Iain Reid is not a book I felt the urge to hurl bodily into the nearest oxfam, but nor did it consume me in the way Reid’s best work has. I liked it well enough. fanfiaddict.com/review-we-sp...

Do you like Hannibal Lecter? If so, two things. a) treat yourself to “Hannibal Lecter: A Life,” by @brianraftery.bsky.social (PRONTO) out today and b) listen to my interview with this absolute scholar, wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/7aFW...

Pre-order @alexgrecian.bsky.social's supernatural thriller today: badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

“The Boatman,” by @alexgrecian.bsky.social is a chilling, driftwood-etched reminder of our own mortality that will cling to you like salt water, and won’t be rinsed off easily. Out from @badhandbooks.bsky.social April 7th

🌹🩸 NEW REVIEW! 🩸🌹 First Date by @manylittlewords.bsky.social - @daturabooks.bsky.social "The definitive (anti)dating tale about what it takes for someone to actually be real to another person, strapped to a grim conveyor belt of survival horror that I couldn’t stop reading even as I died inside."

In “The Caretaker,” by Marcus Kliewer even the spaces between each word feel hostile. Out in April. Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-the-c...

Sometimes you read a book for which writing a review after almost causes you an aneurysm. @scribeofhades.bsky.social's upcoming #Daytide is one such offender but man am I glad I had the chance to have an early look! What if Guillermo del Toro took on Punk Rock angels? fanfiaddict.com/review-dayti...

“Whether handling haunted pornography, simply admiring the lunar eclipse- the first in 50 years, topping the charts in Liverpool 1957, or knocking them back in a doctors office, I would follow @natcassidy.bsky.social anywhere. Not in a weird way.” @shortwavebooks.bsky.social MAY 5TH

“A real page-turner, “Greedy,” by @callieuntitled.bsky.social is exactly what I thought it would be. This is the sort of book you may try and pace yourself with, savour, but will end up demolishing standing at the kitchen counter.” FEB 3rd- Bantam FEB 5th- Century

I watched the video of today’s ICE execution - a terrible idea, don’t do it - and I find this level of state evil in America incomprehensible I’m so sorry for my US friends who are seeing this happen to their county The American govt is a rogue terrorist faction; the world must sanction it.

“Intensely uncanny, white-knuckle tense, wholly unnerving, Trad Wife by Sarah Langan was one that I basked in the unremitting, methodic, apron-clad dread of. Ballerina farm meets “A King in Yellow,” meets Shirley Jackson.” MAY 14TH- @torbooksuk.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-trad-...

“Trad Wife,” by @saratogaishere.bsky.social is, beneath its sourdough crust and all that gingham, politically engaged, quite rightly enraged and genuinely highly entertaining and cathartic in its excess. FEB 10th- @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social FEB 19th- @bantambooksuk.bsky.social

If you liked those silly subgenres I made up, you can listen to my series wrap up below, or wherever else you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

“A novel that cares not about being liked, but being felt, absorbed and endured, finished in a quiet state of ruin, “Wretch,” by @ericlarocca.bsky.social succeeds in all that it sets out to do, and for the record, I happened to like it too.” @titanbooks.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Horrormance! I can see that. I guess SF Specmance or Scimantasy?

A book that made my teeth itchy, my stomach turn, and my innards want to crawl out of my body, David Simmons’ “Fetty On The Switches,” is a damp, leaky, grubby, grimey and bizarre little number that I prodded, circled and then promptly fell headfirst into. @clashbooks.bsky.social JUNE ‘26

George Dunn says you should read ACQUIRED TASTE. Read his Top Reads of 2025 over at FanFiAddict here: bit.ly/3L5SOCX

Massive thanks to the fantastic George Dunn, writing for FanFiAddict, for naming VEIL one of the Top Ten Books of the Year! fanfiaddict.com/george-dunns...

obligatory best of the year list for your perusal: fanfiaddict.com/george-dunns...

This is an incredible review of SPREAD ME, both in that it is very kind to the book ("All in all, a deeply unwholesome way to spend an afternoon") and in that it is a STELLAR piece of writing - I will be repeating the phrase "four eyed, fork-tongued viral desert people-eater" to myself all day 😈

“Spread Me,” by @sarahgailey.bsky.social is a revolting delight of a story, a piece of defrosted John Carpenter turned Cronenbergian sleaze, with a cocked hip and a knowing look. Arresting, astounding..arrousing..? fanfiaddict.com/review-sprea...

For the @theobserveruk.bsky.social I’ve written about Christmas ghost stories, the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, and how literary detectives such as @johnnymains.co.uk are digging up lost tales. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

📚😱 INDIE PRESS HORROR BOOKS RELEASED THIS YEAR THAT ARE LEGALLY* REQUIRED READING 😱📚 *My post, my laws ⬇️

I’m working on my best of the year 2025 list. Thank you so much to everybody who has written horror that given me a good scare, or entertained me, or uplifted me, or moved me to tears, or even offered hope at a time in which that’s otherwise in short supply…

A bloody, rageful, vindictive beast of a book, Molka by Monika Kim is a revenge story sharpened to an avenging edge that will get your molars grinding and fingers itching. APRIL 2026- @erewhonbooks.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-molka...

The Year End @talkscaredpod.bsky.social episode has become one of my favorite traditions, but holy hell, they said such kind things about WOLF that I honestly disassociated a little bit. Thank you, Neil, @annarosereads.bsky.social, @georgesreads.bsky.social, and @emilyhughes.bsky.social! 😭❤️🙏

It’s that time of year again! For this year's State of the Horror Nation, I’m joined by @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @annarosereads.bsky.social and @georgesreads.bsky.social for a deep appraisal of 2025 in horror writing (and some film) SO MANY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! All podcast places - enjoy.

“Japanese Gothic,” by Kylie Lee Baker is a dual time-line headspinner- a perhaps literally, dizzyingly gorgeous ghost story. Wholly enchanted and utterly horrifying. ‘APR 2026 @hodderfiction.bsky.social @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social

We are so back this week! Talking Scared returns on Tuesday with the STATE OF THE HORROR NATION review. The panel is @emilyhughes.bsky.social, george_reads and @annarosereads.bsky.social - covering all their highlights of 2025 horror. At nearly 3 hours, it should get you closer to Christmas.

“What Hunger,” by @dangitcat.bsky.social is a bloody, melt-in-the-mouth morsel of a book that reads like butter and tastes like iron. I wolfed it down. @simonbooks.bsky.social @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social Full Review: fanfiaddict.com/review-what-...

Let’s talk about it: ⚡️ BLACK FRIDAY FRANKENSTEIN EPISODE IS NOW ALIVE ⚡️ with @georgesreads.bsky.social We dig into what haunts us: creation without compassion, ambition without accountability, and the monsters we make, on purpose or accident. open.substack.com/pub/unstable...

Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” was a banger. The 1818 novel, utterly groundbreaking. I got to talk about both with my friend @unstablebooks.bsky.social !! open.substack.com/pub/unstable...

“House of Beth,” by Kerry Cullen is a strange and magnetic piece of literary horror. Uncanny and romantic, peculiar and charming, this one is a corker of a novel from any author, but an outrageously brilliant debut. @simonandschuster.bsky.social

“High in antioxidants and fatalities, Wes Craven meets LA in “Breathe In, Bleed Out,” by @brianmcwriter.bsky.social , with kills so violent and creative that they will engage your core and realign your chakras… this one goes down smooth.” @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social

Doused in relatable honesty, Kyle Kouri's The Problem Drinker offers no solutions; no, it offers something better. Read @annarosereads.bsky.social review! @kylekouri.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social

“”Daytide,” is a story that requires readers to forget genre, whatever your definition of horror or fantasy or sci-fi is, and baptise yourself in the stinging, turp-soaked, existential delirium that @scribeofhades.bsky.social has so beautifully crafted.” FEB 26TH @rapturepublishing.bsky.social

“May I be frank with you? This is hard. @catrionaward.bsky.social’s writing is slippery and elusive and entirely unreasonably hard to describe. It’s like trying to bottle fog. It refuses to sit still enough for a neat summary and I fear I’ve made a pig’s ear of trying…” But try I do. Full review:

“The Frighteners,” by @revpeterlaws.bsky.social is a ridiculously smart yet approachable and irresistibly two-mates-over-a-pint-like exploration of human psychology and horror. Why does the grotesque and gothic beckon? fanfiaddict.com/review-the-f...

Gotta admit: MEAT BEE's cover is gnarly in the best possible way. Props to cover artist Joel Amat Güell and the fine folks at CLASH Books for giving my book the cover it deserves. I hope the story moves readers as much as the cover does.

I got to talk to one of my favourite podcasters on one of my favourite podcasts about all of my favourite King books!! It was a joy. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1... Or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

All right, crazy people, it's time to buckle in for my review of @cullenbunn.bsky.social's forthcoming BONES OF OUR STARS, BLOOD OF OUR WORLD and his everything but the kitchen sink approach to horror. This book's a doozy! 🩸📚 💙📚 #BookSky #bookreview #horror fanfiaddict.com/review-bones...

If you ever felt you needed to know more about me, for whatever reason, I did a cool interview with Bold Journey. I got to gush about bookstagram and horror and they put a really big massive picture of my face at the top. boldjourney.com/meet-george-...

Full of emotion, genuine heart and even more genuine belly laughs, “Shitshow,” takes the best bits of Dr. Who and “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” the worst part of festivals, and smooshes it together into a stinky little horror comedy. @scribeofhades.bsky.social @sobelobooks.bsky.social

So glad you’re a fan!!