Home is where love flows. Sarah Gailey can twist your mind. Though my first exposure was through The Echo Wife — an immeasurably good and disturbing turn at the intersection of horror and domestic — Just Like Home proves they’re more than able to turn any familiar territory into something…

Think you know the real story of horror’s most treasured monsters? Independent publishers are some of horror fiction’s greatest lifeblood, offering platform to stories you would be hard-pressed to find in the common sphere and space to those voices who scream to be heard in a world that often seeks…

Wanna get haunted? Nobody does gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, stomach-turning storytelling quite like Clay McLeod Chapman. A heartwarmingly affable man with a mind of untold depths is perhaps the best balance to strike in the creative world, and fortunately Chapman is both in spades. Following him on social media is a constant…

The House of Usher, Repossessed There’s no one quite like Poe. Haunted as he was in life, it’s no surprise he was so adept at tapping directly into fears in his work, no matter how dark and unusual they were. From fear of the elderly to tales of revenge to…

How far would you go to move on from your past? We’re all patchworks of our past carrying through to the present and trying to carve out better futures, but how much time do you find yourself spending reminiscing and comparing the past? What would you give to be able…

A look into how our brains experience fear, and why we keep going back to it. There’s such an interesting tension between horror and non-horror fans when it comes to understanding and embracing fear. I both did and did not grow up fully a fan until I was a teenager…

Or: Confronting biases through art Every year I try to think of reading goals. Usually, they boil down to simply reading more of something. More in number, more by diverse authors, more distinct genres. This year I’ve decided to get serious about tackling my imposter syndrome by reading at least…

There’s more than one way to haunt a house… What’s in a name? An age-old question, perhaps, but no less impactful for the passage of time. The answer could be anything, if you were willing to go deep enough in an explanation. In Camilla Sten’s The Resting Place, translated by…

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Unreliable narrators are one of literature’s greatest tools. Whether we know they’re unreliable from the start or it’s planted like a trail of crumbs leading deep into the shadows, such characters having control of the story forces us to reckon with the limits…