Horror books

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson; The Cabinet by Un-su Kim; Femlandia by Christina Dalcher; When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow; The Workshop of Filthy Creation by Richard Gadz

Lisa Tuttle

08, Oct, 2021 @11:00 AM

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow review – butchered plotting, bloodless horror

A scrambled script and an over-reliance on dry ice leave this version of Sleepy Hollow tired and empty

Catherine Love

07, Oct, 2021 @7:00 PM

No One Gets Out Alive – a stylish Netflix immigration horror

A mostly impressive gothic chiller tells the story of an undocumented Mexican woman facing down sinister forces in Ohio

Benjamin Lee

29, Sep, 2021 @5:50 PM

The best recent fantasy, horror and science fiction – review roundup

Dare to Know by James Kennedy; Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; The Black Locomotive by Rian Hughes; Five Minds by Guy Morpuss; and AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

Lisa Tuttle

10, Sep, 2021 @11:00 AM

The best recent science fiction, horror and fantasy – review roundup

Hollow by B Catling; The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix; Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy; A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark; and Too Near the Dead by Helen Grant

Lisa Tuttle

13, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM

From Mary Shelley to Carmen Maria Machado, women have profoundly shaped horror | Danielle Binks

The genre gives us a collective frame of reference for our fears, so it’s no wonder women have created some of our most unsettling works of literature

Danielle Binks

12, Aug, 2021 @1:18 AM

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

Paula Hawkins, Stephen King, Laura Lippman and Joanne Harris return with sublime tales of the unexpected

Alison Flood

09, Aug, 2021 @7:30 AM

‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters

In a revealing new book, the under-appreciated author’s son shows a new side to his misunderstood mother

Veronica Esposito

04, Aug, 2021 @6:30 AM

Mo Hayder obituary

Bestselling author whose fascination with death and violence found expression in the Jack Caffery crime novels

Mark Billingham

02, Aug, 2021 @3:57 PM

Crime novelist Mo Hayder dies aged 59 from motor neurone disease

Clare Dunkel, who was diagnosed only months ago, wrote 10 thrillers under the pen name and has been remembered as a ‘ferociously inventive’ presence

Alison Flood

29, Jul, 2021 @12:29 PM

Fear Street Part 3: 1666 review – hokey horror trilogy ends on a high

Netflix’s big-bet slasher franchise goes back in time before leaping forward again in a rousing and immensely satisfying finale

Benjamin Lee

16, Jul, 2021 @2:56 PM

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson; A Strange and Brilliant Light by Eli Lee; Robot by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg; Come Closer by Sara Gran; The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig and The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry

Lisa Tuttle

16, Jul, 2021 @10:00 AM