Fawn – The Devil Knows Her Name by C.N. Vair’s Debut Is Appalachian Feminist Horror at Its Sharpest https://gnofhorror.com/fawn-the-devil-knows-her-name-by-c-n-vair/

The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley: A Vampire Coven in 1869 Paris https://gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacrament-by-sara-hinkley-review/

My aunt recommended this book and holy cow it was good. Get yourself an auntie who reads horror! #booksky💙📚

For this week’s #podcast episode, we caught up with Andrew Cartmel to chat about the differences between writing for the screen, the stage, and the page! Listen here: linktr.ee/fictionfanspod #booksky 💙📚

New double bill up at Ginger Nuts of Horror, and both books turn the blade back on the reader. 🩸 A THREAD. 🧵 gnofhorror.com/marion-by-le... gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacr...

Leah Rowan's MARION flips Psycho: the blonde survives the shower and takes the knife. Fast, funny-dark feminist horror about sisterhood and rage, with a debut author's nerve and a veteran's control. My full review: https://gnofhorror.com/marion-by-leah-rowan-feminist-horror-review/

"If you have ever worked somewhere that called itself a family right up until the moment it cut you loose, you will feel the cold logic of it in your gut." Thanks so much to Jim Mcleod at @gnofhorror.com for this wonderful review:

Leah Rowan's MARION flips Psycho: the blonde survives the shower and takes the knife. Fast, funny-dark feminist horror about sisterhood and rage, with a debut author's nerve and a veteran's control. My full review: https://gnofhorror.com/marion-by-leah-rowan-feminist-horror-review/

New double bill up at Ginger Nuts of Horror, and both books turn the blade back on the reader. 🩸 A THREAD. 🧵 gnofhorror.com/marion-by-le... gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacr...

Today is the start of Disablity Pride month! Disabled people deserve to exist and not be treated as lesser. That's why we write stories about them. Grab this Itch bundle with 33 disability rep books for $33! itch.io/b/3751/disab...

Foodify a Doctor Who Title The Macaroni Terror The Pumpkin Seeds of Death The Masque of The Manchego The Sunny D Makers

My top 6 reads from the year so far. Featuring: The Undead Complex — Courtney Smyth (2024) Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz (2025) Sorcery and Small Magics — Maiga Doocy (2024) Floodlines — Saleem Haddad (2026) A Conventional Boy — Charles Stross (2025) The Tinder Box — M. R. Carey (2026)

NEW POST: Today’s post is a cover reveal for the upcoming book ROGUES’ GALLEY by MATTHEW TURNER, which is due out on 20 OCTOBER 2026. Matthew has written two other books and you can find him over on Instagram &Goodreads www.fantasybooknerd.com/2026/07/cove...

For fans of mystery, and thriller, with horror/supernatural elements, and some romance—it’s even darkly humorous. This is unique in a way that has some mass appeal, especially in the market with Leede, McAuley, and Tingle’s works being on the rise fanfiaddict.com/review-the-e...

Moon Over Brendle, by @jeffnoon.bsky.social (pub by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social) is an ode to the creative process with the distinctive weirdness of Noon's writing; it's difficult to capture in words how I felt about this book (it's brilliant). Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/moon... 💙📚

The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley: a vampire theatre troupe in 1869 Paris, slow gothic dread, and a sharp argument about who feeds on whom. The opulence is the trap. Best horror debut I've read in ages. My full review. https://gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacrament-by-sara-hinkley-review/

Marion by Leah Rowan: A Feminist Horror Remix of Psycho https://gnofhorror.com/marion-by-leah-rowan-feminist-horror-review/

Folk horror doesn't need fields. Blood in the Bricks drags the genre onto the underground, the surgery ward and the skate park. Lonely in a crowd, terrified at home. Neil Williamson's anthology is bleak and brilliant. https://gnofhorror.com/blood-in-the-bricks-urban-folk-horror-review/

Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe: Dark Dystopian Romance With Teeth https://gnofhorror.com/daggermouth-by-h-m-wolfe-a-review/

Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe: Dark Dystopian Romance With Teeth https://gnofhorror.com/daggermouth-by-h-m-wolfe-a-review/

Folk horror doesn't need fields. Blood in the Bricks drags the genre onto the underground, the surgery ward and the skate park. Lonely in a crowd, terrified at home. Neil Williamson's anthology is bleak and brilliant. https://gnofhorror.com/blood-in-the-bricks-urban-folk-horror-review/

Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe: she misses the kill shot, ends up married to her target, and the city executes anyone who loves outside their ring. Sold as dark dystopian romance. Reads like social horror with the safety off. My review: https://gnofhorror.com/daggermouth-by-h-m-wolfe-a-review/

NEW REVIEW A body-horror confession with teeth, where the gross-out feels like grief, and the satire keeps its villain in plain sight. The cruelty is that he had to become a monster before anyone would treat him like a man. gnofhorror.com/nothing-tast... @canelobooks.bsky.social

When creating the social world of the Theatre Saint-Simeon I took inspiration from my own working life in show business, but also from industry tea, specifically stories about the orchestra of The Phantom of the Opera. https://gnofhorror.com/sara-hinkley-on-the-red-sacrament-a-vampire-novel/

Dumas makes the miracle feel earned before he ever shows you the invoice. https://gnofhorror.com/nothing-tastes-as-good-by-luke-dumas-body-horror/

Sara Hinkley on The Red Sacrament How a film and theatre costume designer turned the Siege of Paris, Interview with the Vampire, and decades of backstage showbiz feuds into a class-conscious queer vampire story. gnofhorror.com/sara-hinkley... @titanbooks.bsky.social @boneysoups.bsky.social

NEW REVIEW A body-horror confession with teeth, where the gross-out feels like grief, and the satire keeps its villain in plain sight. The cruelty is that he had to become a monster before anyone would treat him like a man. gnofhorror.com/nothing-tast... @canelobooks.bsky.social

You had me at racoon detective then I realised it was one of Adrian's and I'm even more there! Thanks for the heads up @gabliotecaria.bsky.social

E. L. Chen on Slasher Summer: seven friends named after slasher icons, hauled back to the cabin from a cult '80s film and forced to replay the roles they outgrew. We talked Final Girls and writing yourself into a genre built to kill you first. #HorrorBooks

Thank you, Tor Books and Macmillan Audio, for the gifted ARC and ALC! Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky was a unique and interesting sci-fi/mystery! #bookreview #GreenCityWars #scifi #audioreview

E. L. Chen on Slasher Summer: seven friends named after slasher icons, hauled back to the cabin from a cult '80s film and forced to replay the roles they outgrew. We talked Final Girls and writing yourself into a genre built to kill you first. #HorrorBooks

10 UPCOMING BOOKS FROM INDEPENDENT PRESSES YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS! @clashbooks.bsky.social @sobelobooks.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @rapturepublishing.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/unstable...

New review from GNOH toda. This is a book on my TBR too.

Now this looks a really interesting shortlist!

New interview with @elainechen.com "Having a diverse slasher cast posed a challenge because, as you point out, slashers have a history of killing off the minorities first." gnofhorror.com/e-l-chen-on-...

Tracy Fahey wakes the Cailleach under the Beara stone and lets her listen. Queens of the Crone Age is quiet, fierce Irish folk horror that hands the crone the microphone and turns age into power. My full review: https://gnofhorror.com/queens-of-the-crone-age-tracy-fahey-review/

The Past Wears a Mask: A Conversation with E. L. Chen @elainechen.com https://gnofhorror.com/e-l-chen-on-slasher-summer-and-the-final-girl/

Tracy Fahey wakes the Cailleach under the Beara stone and lets her listen. Queens of the Crone Age is quiet, fierce Irish folk horror that hands the crone the microphone and turns age into power. My full review: https://gnofhorror.com/queens-of-the-crone-age-tracy-fahey-review/

The Past Wears a Mask: A Conversation with E. L. Chen @elainechen.com https://gnofhorror.com/e-l-chen-on-slasher-summer-and-the-final-girl/

IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND by Cynthia Pelayo – Review The nitty-gritty: Cynthia Pelayo reimagines the story of Peter Pan, with elements both new and familiar, in this emotionally charged tale. This isn’t the first Peter Pan retelling I’ve read that casts Peter as the villain—check out Lost Boy by…

I'm busy working through the edits for this, and it's such a joyous reminder of why human-authored writing is so important. These stories are glorious and nuanced and strange in the way that only stories by actual people who have lived lives and felt feelings are able to produce.

New interview with @elainechen.com "Having a diverse slasher cast posed a challenge because, as you point out, slashers have a history of killing off the minorities first." gnofhorror.com/e-l-chen-on-...

This is folk horror that hands the crone the microphone, turns age into power and forgetting into the wound, and closes on a sleeping goddess who promises to begin again. gnofhorror.com/queens-of-th...

You closed the door. You said it was over. Titan would like a word. Some things you bury. Some things bury you.

I am so honored by this beautiful review of my rereleased novella, Roost! Thank you @gnofhorror.com !

" he still climbs up there and belts it out like the venue is ablaze and the exits are blocked. That is the gingerness I salute. Not the songs. Never, ever the songs. The sheer, unkillable brass neck of a redhead who simply refuses to be told to sit down."

" he still climbs up there and belts it out like the venue is ablaze and the exits are blocked. That is the gingerness I salute. Not the songs. Never, ever the songs. The sheer, unkillable brass neck of a redhead who simply refuses to be told to sit down."

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-García The blurb goes like this: the protagonist, apparently a posh city girl with backbone, travels to visit her ailing cousin after receiving an alarming letter. Her cousin lives with her husband in a dilapidated English 1/5 #BookSky #amReading #horror #Review

It’s the weekend I have reviews to write up but that also means you get a new Wombling along with reviews and other things I caught online - grab a cool drink and relax with it! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...

You closed the door. You said it was over. Titan would like a word. Some things you bury. Some things bury you.