Reviews

Fiction, films, festivals, television, music…if it’s British horror-related we’ll review it. Here you’ll find reviews of some of the cream of British horror releases from some of the best reviewers around…

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[Review] The Queen of the High Fields

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
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Horrified’s Ally Wilkes enjoys Welsh-mythology-based dark fantasy/folk horror novella The Queen of the High Fields by Rhiannon A Grist…

[Review] The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
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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…

[Review] Homebound (2021)

April 1, 2022April 4, 2022
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British horror Homebound, supported by the BFI and BBC Film, is the feature length debut of writer-director Sebastian Godwin…

[Review] A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
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Sarah Johnson is transported in time and place by A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird…

[Review] The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022
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Sarah Johnson reviews The Black Dreams from Blackstaff Press, perhaps the first collection of strange stories from Northern Ireland, which draws on its culture and history for a thought-provoking read…

[Review] Black Mountain

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022
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Horrified’s Ally Wilkes takes a trip to Mynydd Du in Simon Bestwick’s novel Black Mountain, an accomplished found-document horror set in the forests of Wales…

[Review] Our Wives Under the Sea, plus author Q&A

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
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Natalie Wall reviews Our Wives Under the Sea, the complex, literary, and ambiguous deep-sea-horror novel from Julia Armfield. Includes an exclusive interview with the author.