Hervé Commère seals each chapter shut, turning an advent calendar into a countdown of dread. A five star YA thriller.

A. Robles turns the Bible inside out in a funny, blood-soaked Southern witch novel that gives the Devil every good line. Five ...

Jennifer Thorne's werewolf horror novel turns a stately home break-in into a savage, funny class war. Her best book yet. Five stars.

Michael Wehunt's vampire-tinged serial-killer novel Nightjars gets a four-star Ginger Nuts of Horror review: blood, memory ...

Tracy Fahey published two books this year that could not be less alike, except in the ways that matter. Queens of the Crone Age sends the Cailleach of Irish myth back into the modern world to listen ...

Paul Finch's In the Forest of the Night gathers five horror tales for Black Shuck Shadows, from folklore dread to gangster ...

See Rian Hughes's cover for Altar and Other Stories, Philip Fracassi's hardback omnibus from Black Crow Books, out 17 ...

An Excess of Hauntings turns absence into sound, and a book into a puzzle. The Only Objects, an Adelaide art-rock trio led by ...

What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne is a YA horror fantasy that fuses cave horror and fungal body horror with a ...

Our 5-star Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose turning séances, haunted houses and cursed objects into sharp, bloody ...

Rot Land by Michael Mulvihill turns everyday decay into political horror. Our review of a crisp, witty novel about the rot we ...

A travelling medium who helps the dead move on arrives at a remote country inn, newly bought at auction by a widow and her son, where odd things keep happening. Never After Dark is the new Japanese ...