EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL AND EXCERPT: THE DEVIL’S GIFT by JOSHUA ROBINSON
We’re hugely excited to reveal the cover and share an exclusive excerpt from The Devil’s Gift, the debut novella by Joshua Robinson…
Books
All The White Spaces
Paul Gorman is swept to the wilderness of Antarctica in All the White Spaces, the stunning debut novel by Ally Wilkes, and finds something waiting there…
The Face in the Glass – Tales of the Weird
Sarah Johnson celebrates the genre accomplishments of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a commercially successful Victorian writer, in her review of The Face in the Glass from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird…
A Trilogy Of Terrors: How The Usborne Supernatural Guides Enriched My Childhood
Johnny Restall recalls the terrors of his childhood with the Usborne Supernatural Guides…
The Unread: Why The Uninvited is the most terrifying book I will never read
Tom Graham reflects on a book – or rather, a book cover – that traumatised him as a child. Clive Harold’s The Uninvited…
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL AND EXCERPT: ALL THE WHITE SPACES BY ALLY WILKES
We’re excited to reveal the cover and share an exclusive excerpt from All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, Horrified’s own Book Reviews Editor!
Haunted objects in women’s weird fiction
From gloves to saucepans to scissors, supernatural stories from the 1920s to the 1950s use haunted household items to explore women’s changing social roles. Sarah Jackson explores these trinkets of terror in her first essay for Horrified…
Cruel Bravery in the Context of Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald
Keith Fallows writes about courage and cruelty in the award-winning genre mashup by Neil Gaiman…
Flowers, Feathers & Fate – Alan Garner’s The Owl Service
A tormented tangle of feathers, flowers and fate: Johnny Restall investigates the possessing patterns of Alan Garner’s The Owl Service…
Celebrating Edward Parnell’s Ghostland
Joe Howsin interviews the author Edward Parnell about his 2019 book, Ghostland, a haunting meditation on the ghost story, weird fiction in British film, television and literature, and a personal reflection on grief and loss…