Hervé Commère seals each chapter shut, turning an advent calendar into a countdown of dread. A five star YA thriller.

Jennifer Thorne's werewolf horror novel turns a stately home break-in into a savage, funny class war. Her best book yet. Five stars.

Tracy Fahey published two books this year that could not be less alike, except in the ways that matter. Queens of the Crone Age sends the Cailleach of Irish myth back into the modern world to listen ...

Michael Wehunt's vampire-tinged serial-killer novel Nightjars gets a four-star Ginger Nuts of Horror review: blood, memory ...

A travelling medium who helps the dead move on arrives at a remote country inn, newly bought at auction by a widow and her son, where odd things keep happening. Never After Dark is the new Japanese ...

See Rian Hughes's cover for Altar and Other Stories, Philip Fracassi's hardback omnibus from Black Crow Books, out 17 ...

Paul Finch's In the Forest of the Night gathers five horror tales for Black Shuck Shadows, from folklore dread to gangster ...

An Excess of Hauntings turns absence into sound, and a book into a puzzle. The Only Objects, an Adelaide art-rock trio led by ...

Rot Land by Michael Mulvihill turns everyday decay into political horror. Our review of a crisp, witty novel about the rot we ...

What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne is a YA horror fantasy that fuses cave horror and fungal body horror with a ...

Our 5-star Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose turning séances, haunted houses and cursed objects into sharp, bloody ...

A five-star review of Yvette Fielding’s Most Haunted Hotels, a spooky illustrated tour through haunted history, ghost stories ...