There is so much out there to read, and until you get your turn in a time loop, you don’t have time to read it all to find the highlights.
Read more"Thin Places" by Kay Chronister: A Review
You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.
Read moreThe Author of “Cat Person”: Kristen Roupenian’s First Collection
Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.
Read more"Homesick" by Nino Cipri: The Thing With Feathers
Nino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.
Read more"All The Things We Never See" by Michael Kelly: A Review
Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.
Read moreOn Loving Monsters and The Human Condition
A Review of the excellent Sing Your Sadness Deep by British Fantasy Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro.
Read more"This House of Wounds" by Georgina Bruce: A Review
If you are interested in the themes of mirrors and mothers, bodies as machines, daughters and madness, flowers and blood, then Georgina Bruce’s debut story collection is for you!
Read moreThomas Ligotti and the Derangement of Creation
An underappreciated master of horror, appreciated.
Read moreAverting Literary Extinction Events: An Appreciation of Undertow Publications
Undertow Publications is a small press that has won the Shirley Jackson award for best edited anthology. Their lauded anthology, Year’s Best Weird Fiction went from endangered to extinct with Volume 5. Come celebrate this beautiful volume and learn about this press, which despite this set back, has amazing books on offer this year.
Read moreRefusing Silence: A Review of Gabino Iglesias's "Coyote Songs"
Guest Contributor Manual Aragon reviews Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias. “[Iglesias] creates a world that I know, where language knows no barriers, no walls, and moves exactly where it is most comfortable.”
Read moreYou Don't Just Lose Your Life: An Interview With Gabino Iglesias
Writer Gabino Iglesias’ new book Coyote Songs hit book stores this week. Check out this interview for ideas about writing, the horror of murder and living interstitially.
Read more"New Fears 2": Nightmares Are the Price We Pay for Dreaming
In the second New Fears anthology, horror knows no boundaries.
Read moreWe Can't Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma
Fiction Unbound’s Gemma Webster chats with UK writer Priya Sharma.
Read moreBundle Up for Joe Hill's "Strange Weather"
Read Strange Weather with a nice warm blanket you can hide under.
Read moreCarmen Maria Machado's New Gothic: "Her Body and Other Parties"
Carmen Maria Machado's astonishing short story collection queers reality itself.
Read moreInvite The Twilight Pariah Into Your Imagination
The Twilight Pariah, part ghost story, part murder mystery, swings from the craftily conventional to the truly inventive.
Read moreEllen Datlow Is Virgil in Your Journey to the Underworld
No one is reading more dark fiction than Ellen Datlow. Her knowledge of the horror genre is deeper than mine or yours.
Read moreIn "Mapping the Interior," Native Fathers and Sons, Haunted by the Past
Native American ghost story? Psychological thriller? Portrait of a young mind struggling to cope with unspeakable grief and existential rage? Stephen Graham Jones's haunting novella is all of the above, and more.
Read moreAn Interview With Brenna Yovanoff
Brenna Yovanoff's Gothic monsters are full of teeth, and she is an author full of surprises.
Read more"Slade House": David Mitchell's Horror-Fantasy Hybrid
David Mitchell appropriates the tropes of horror fiction to pose questions about greed, privilege, and power.
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