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The Environment is Us, Prophecy and Overt Messages
"that nothing about this film is subtle. It’s a textbook example of a series of messages being crammed down your throat." 1979 brought the beginning of three major horror franchises (Alien, The...
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GHOST STORIES BY SIMON R GREEN
My most recent Ishmael Jones mystery, The House on Widows Hill, features a murder in a haunted house. There’s a telling moment when one of the characters asks everyone to tell their own personal ghost...
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Look Back in Horror by Kathryn Foxfield
Today we welcome Kathryn Foxfield to the site with her article on her discovery and journey into becoming a fan of horror fiction. Kathryn Foxfield is a germ-loving scientist turned writer. She’s...
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THE MASTER OF AMBIGUITY: A THINKING READER’S GUIDE TO THE BRILLIANCE OF PAUL...
am∙bi∙gu∙i∙ty:the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness There’s a story from Paul Tremblay’s Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology GROWING THINGS (William Morrow, 2019)...
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How to Write a Fiction Book Review
HOW TO WRITE A FICTION BOOK REVIEW Fiction books are part of education. You read at school, in college and university. Adults read less, and it happens because they have no time to read fiction but...
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Exploring The Labyrinth - CLICKERS II BY BRIAN KEENE
Exploring The Labyrinth In this series, I will be reading every Brian Keene book that has been published (and is still available in print) in order of original publication, and then producing an essay...
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MONSTERS AS A METAPHOR FOR DEPRESSION: TWO FILMS AND TWO DIFFERENT WAYS TO...
The film’s use of depression as a toxic burden on the family proves that the film should’ve stayed in the two and a half minutes format (previous a short film) instead of creating a feature film and...
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IN DEFENCE OF MONSTER STORIES BY LEE MURRAY
Because monster stories have always served explain the unexplainable. To rationalise away the things that would otherwise be put in the too-hard basket. Lots of much smarter people agree: LEE MURRAY:...
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2020’S BEST NEW HORROR BOOKS BY VANESSA KEARNEY
2020 was the year that horror tropes got real as pandemic spread across the world. Nevertheless, now more than ever we need an escape from reality, and this list of the best new horror books is sure...
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THE FILM THAT MADE ME: SCREAM BY LAURYN DYAN
The summer after director Wes Craven’s reinvigoration of the horror genre, Scream, came out, I was serial killer level obsessed. I watched it every single day and can still quote parts of it word for...
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DOOM: ETERNAL, DANTE WAS NEVER THIS LIGHT HEARTED.
Far from being angels as religious dogma would have them, the celestial forces in this game are of a more Lovecraftian bent, being entities and powers from beyond our own reality, whose nature and...
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THE HORROR OF MY LIFE BY KELLY EVANS
Born in Canada of Scottish extraction, Kelly Evans graduated in History and English from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. After graduation she moved to the UK where she worked in the financial...
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THE HORROR OF MY LIFE: SEAN DEVILLE
Sean Deville fell into the world of apocalyptic fiction with his first zombie novel, "Cobra Z" which was book 1 in his Necropolis trilogy (Cobra Z, The Contained, Necropolis - published by Severed...
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BOOK EXTRACT - THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER BY ANDY DAVIDSON
On Wednesday we were honoured to bring you the cover reveal for the Uk edition of Andy Davidson's The Boatman's Daughter, today we bring you an extract from this highkly anticipated novel THE...
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The Gothic Is Dead; Long Live the Gothic! By Jo Kaplan
The uncanny is another hallmark of the genre that feels ever-more significant in today’s world where reality is increasingly blurred. We live vicariously through online avatars, play hyper-realistic...
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CHILDHOOD INSPIRATIONS- A HORROR WRITER’S TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE BY RUSCHELLE...
Ask a horror author which titles inspired them to write and you’d undoubtedly be given a list penned by the horror greats. But not all inspiration comes from the door stopper novels of King, McCammon,...
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HORROR IN THE 41ST MILLENNIUM: THE NECRONS BY GEORGE DANIEL LEA
Fans of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 franchise will know that the setting is fertile breeding ground for all manner of horrors. From the dystopian awfulness of the galaxy-spanning Imperium of...
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Early Revelations of Death: the book that made me by Joshua Rex
BIOJoshua Rex is an author of speculative fiction and historical nonfiction. His debut horror collection What’s Coming for You was released in August, 2020. He lives in El Paso, Texas. WEBSITE...
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EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH - KILL WHITEY BY BRIAN KEENE
Exploring The Labyrinth In this series, I will be reading every Brian Keene book that has been published (and is still available in print) in order of original publication, and then producing an essay...
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HURTS SO GOOD BY TIM WAGGONER, AUTHOR OF WRITING IN THE DARK
To celebrate the launch of Writing in the Dark, we welcome Tim Waggoner to Ginger Nuts of Horror with an excellent feature looking at how to tackle the issue of pain in writing. Writing in the Dark is...
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