Rachel Louise Adams explains why Where There's Smoke is set in a slaughterhouse, and how a PhD on meat and its hidden ...

Madison Tyler Nelson's ghost story about a seer, her jailed mother and a murdered friend is a five star debut.

Micaiah Johnson flips the haunted house in a cold, clever Southern Gothic horror novel. Slow to start, nasty once it bites.

Kinch and Galva flee the Takers Guild with a spellbook that bites, in a darker, sadder and funnier Blacktongue sequel. Kinch Na Shannack has stolen a living spellbook that would much rather see him ...

Phil Keeling's debut horror short story collection serves angels, monster hunts and a chef's last show. Funny, frightening, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...