“Kiss Slay Replay,” by @rachelharrison.bsky.social is a brain-frazzling, time-looping wedding slasher for fans of Chuck Tingle and Happy Death Day. Beyond masterful and thoroughly entertaining. (SEPTEMBER 8TH- @berkleypub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social)

A worth the wait novel, “Marla,” by @jonathanjanz.bsky.social is a twisty, turny story of real terror that didn’t just leave me guessing but was actively delighted to watch me get it wrong and wrong again. AUG 18TH- @blackstonepub.bsky.social

It's time for the first look… 💒🔪 We are thrilled to reveal that KISS SLAY REPLAY by Rachel Harrison will feature these stunning sprayed and stencilled edges! Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this time loop horror story. Coming September 2026 🩸 https://tinyurl.com/8hnyv2pe

A dark fairytale with peat under its fingernails, @amyjanestewart.bsky.social ‘s debut novel “Hex House,” is an unputdownable folk horror that finds terror within sanctuary. Warm and welcoming and wide-open doors until of course, it’s not… @titanbooks.bsky.social APR 28TH

“Brokeula,” by Michael Seidlinger is “a pacy, fang-forward piece of horror comedy that takes a generous bite out of late-stage capitalism and sinks its teeth into the circus of bullshittery that accompanies it.” JULY 7TH- @clashbooks.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-broke...

“The Other,” by @annieneugebauer.bsky.social is that one Spider-Man pointing meme meets Invasion of The Body Snatchers. A single-sitting, no-messing nightmare that is proficient in eliciting almost every subcategory of horror. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social - June 9th

@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social ‘s“The Hive,” will make your ears ring and your molars ache and imprint strange symbols on the insides of your eyelids. Doors, chairs, dragons, metal spiders and conceptual gnomes. (@titanbooks.bsky.social APR 14TH)

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Good point! I don't use AI because I'm not a fucking idiot.

This review of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS by @georgesreads.bsky.social at @fanfiaddict.bsky.social has made my day. Dunn calls the book "A stunningly written, viscerally scary, and deeply emotive novel." Full review in comments! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

“Far removed from windswept moors or crumbling manors, @tamikathompson.bsky.social ‘s trad-pub debut brings the gothic to a public housing project in Michigan, in a chilling examination of gun violence and the supernatural in tandem.” @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

I'm reading an advance copy of @paultremblay.bsky.social's upcoming horror novel DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP and, lemme just say, Paul is an incredible writer! Alternating between conventional and non-conventional narrative, it sinks its claws and DRAGS YOU IN. How does he do it?? Amazing ⭐

A grotty, grungy novel that you will have to swipe grime off of the pages of, and swat lazy loops of humming blue-bottles away from “Hunger and Thirst,” by Claire Fuller is one of the grimmest coming-of-age, or rather, coming apart, stories I have ever read.

Carterknowle Junior’s crumbling roof has been allocated £720,000 by #Sheffield City Council, following serious safety concerns. Read the full @shef-live.bsky.social story here:⬇️ shef-live.co.uk/index.php/20... #Carterknowle #Ecclesall

“Youthjuice,” by E.K Sathue is a toxic, aseptic, retinol-soaked book that chemical burnt my fingertips and exfoliated the pores off of my face. fanfiaddict.com/review-youth...

What a lovely (spoiler free) review!

“Equal parts existential horror, Silicon-Valley-skewering satire, and philosophical joke, @paultremblay.bsky.social ’s “Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep,” is written with the usual amount of ambiguity, plus metatextuality, manic intelligence, and justifiable rage.” @harpercollins.bsky.social

“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.