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Beating The Devil: The Making Of Night Of The Demon by Tony Earnshaw (book review).
Set yourself a task. Find out about a book that you didn’t know existed and see how quickly you can find a copy…
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October 2026
NewsHorror
Bill Nighy joins the cult: Alfonso Cuarón’s Ascension grows out of Adam Nevill’s British Fantasy Award-winner Last Days (TV news).
Bill Nighy joins Caitríona Balfe in Ascension, Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV cult horror series, which is inspired by Adam Nevill's 2012 novel Last…
NewsFantasy
World Fantasy Awards 2026: M. R. Carey and Clive Barker give Liverpool a fantasy double (award news).
M. R. Carey's Once Was Willem wins the 2026 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and Clive Barker shares the Life Achievement award…
NewsHorror
Ryu Murakami (1952–2026): the author of Audition and Coin Locker Babies, and Hideo Kojima’s “bible”, dies at 74 (obituary).
Ryu Murakami, author of Coin Locker Babies, In the Miso Soup and Audition, has died at home aged 74, his publisher Gentosha has…
ReviewHorror
Van Helsing And His Kin by Daniel O’Brien (book review)
Author Daniel O’Brien makes a strong point in his introduction to ‘Van Helsing And His Kin’ that, next to the legendary Count…you know…
July 2026
NewsHorror
Ramsey Campbell Invites Readers to Embrace the Dark in 2027 (book news).
Veteran horror writer Ramsey Campbell will be opening another door marked “Absolutely Do Not Enter” in 2027, when Flame Tree Press publishes his…
ReviewHorror
Paranormal Payback edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (book review).
One of the most popular sub-genres of fantasy deals with the paranormal, its pages littered with witches, ghosts, vampires and the occasional zombie.…
NewsHorror
Helen Grant Conjures Up a New Literary Agent for Purslane the Witch (news).
Novelist Helen Grant has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency with her new novel, Purslane the Witch, a tale combining malevolent magic, disappearing…
ReviewHorror
The Queen by Nick Cutter (book review).
I read The Queen in mid-July, just as the first wasps began to appear in southern England, a good time for insect horror.…
May 2026
ReviewHorror
Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter (book review).
‘Spider, Spider’ is the debut novel from L.C. Winter. The categorisation on the rear of the volume defines it as historical fiction and,…
February 2026
ReviewFantasy
The Other Frankenstein by Melissa P. Olson (book review).
Retelling classic novels, particularly if the aim is to give them a more contemporary twist, is always risky. But with ‘The Other Frankenstein’,…
November 2025
ReviewHorror
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (book review).
The idea of vampires, or the blood-drinking undead, has been around for a very long time, appearing in the folklore of all continents.…