Living is hard emotional work – until you try dying. Alongside the rage many terminally ill people feel against the dying of the light, there are the memories that return to flagellate... Read more »
Andrew Michael Hurley The Summer People by Shirley Jackson I read this years ago and it’s a story that’s truly haunted me ever since. The titular “summer people” are the Allisons from... Read more »
Our fears turn feral when they have nowhere to go. South Korean author Bora Chung’s new short story collection plays with old horror tropes: endless corridors and looped staircases, exits that only... Read more »
All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu (Head of Zeus, £20)In this thriller from award-winning author Liu, Julia Z wants to leave behind the notoriety she gained as a teenage... Read more »
Book News: Orbit launches horror imprint, Run for It
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Body horror is a genre that features the mutilation or transformation of the human body. Always graphic and usually grotesque, its trademark terrors range from dismemberment to cannibalism, which some authors use... Read more »
You Like It Darker by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton, £25)This new collection of 12 stories opens with Two Talented Bastids, which questions how two ordinary guys from a small town in... Read more »
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Titan, £9.99)Set in 1950 in segregated Florida, and inspired, like Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, by the violent abuse and deaths of Black children sent to the... Read more »