*WARNING: CONTAINS MANY, MANY SPOILERS* Clive Barker’s Cabal. Stephen King’s Revival. The Buffy episode The Gift. Fuck Lovecraft; these a...

Delighted to share that my short story Cerberus - a gruesome slice of gluttonous horror inspired by the 1962 classic Whatever Happened To...

My husband told me not to bother going to see her. Said it wasn’t worth the hassle of a confrontation, that I should let it go. But I was...

Supernatural romance. I can’t, hand on heart, claim to know a lot about the genre. I’ve read some of the Twilight books; even seen one of...

*Warning: contains minor spoilers* I’m off work as I write this, and have been actively questing this week for whatever the lockdown equi...

I’ve been lucky enough to read some incredible books this year: some indie, some small press and some Big 5, from writers as new (to me) ...

*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS* I’m about to start writing a book about werewolves (and circuses, and private detectives, and Norse mytholog...

*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS* It took me a long time to finish SH Cooper's All That’s Fair, once I’d started it. Not because it’s a bad bo...

*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS* Even a quick glance at some of horror lit’s seminal texts - from Stephen King’s Night Shift and Clive Barker...

Last night, I read a romance novel. This news, I realise, is unlikely to shock anyone to their core. I mention it, though, because I don’...

*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS* Edited collections are often a bit of a mixed bag, aren’t they? With so many styles and story types at play,...

*WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS* This is an absolutely remarkable collection of stories. As I worked through each story in turn, I found myse...

Hailey Piper loves language. This much is clear even from the opening pages of An Invitation To Darkness. It’s an almost-period piece, h...

I remember watching Bruce La Bruce’s Otto at the cinema when it came out, and thinking, just as the zombie sex kicked in: gosh, this is a...

I wanted to like this book - I really, really did. The deck was stacked in its favour, before I got going. I loved World War Z; enjoy a b...

Did you like Stephen King’s 1408? Of course you did - it’s a masterpiece. The House On Abigail Lane is, for me, the spiritual successor t...

I ploughed through this book in a handful of hours - I couldn’t put it down. I’d heard a previous reviewer compare the story and the main...

Haunting and horrific in just about equal measure, To Be Devoured is short enough to be read in a single sitting, and compelling enough t...

First, to be clear: I absolutely loved this story. The body horror and physical deterioration is beautifully executed - the teeth; oh, G...