Andrew Joseph White's furious YA thriller about a serial killer's trans son is brutal, tender and fearless. Five stars.

Kate Mooney's debut hides a cruel mother and a lying marriage inside a lake house. Familiar bones, sharp teeth. Four stars.

Sally-Anne Martyn sets a modern midwife and a 1656 healer under one elm in a funny, cruel folk horror novel. Five stars.

Alma Katsu turns The Picture of Dorian Gray into fast, cold techno horror about deepfakes, influencers and the price of being ...

Nick Medina sends a grieving mother and her slasher-mad son back to a family lake. A five-star Indigenous horror novel about ...

In Victorian London, the lawyer Mr Utterson grows uneasy about his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll, and about the plain, ...

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Tony Jones picks eleven horror books and dark teen reads for his September 2026 YA Horror roundup: September 2026 ...

Struggling science fiction writer Allen has a new mansion and big paydays before his first book is even finished. When his old college friends come to visit, they start to wonder what he is hiding.

Sam A. Miller is not a name the fiction shelves know, but four and a half million people know his other one. At Sam O’Nella Academy, he spent a decade teaching deadpan history to a stick figure avatar ...

Horror review clichés are the secret language of horror criticism, and Ginger Nuts of Horror has been fluent in it for years, much to nobody’s credit. Slow burn horror, elevated horror, “not for ...

A millionaire who bought his way out of a murder charge dies behind a locked door, his neck twisted the wrong way round, and that is where Weldon Burge’s Enter Vengeance really gets going. This ...