Ginger Nuts of Horror
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We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥 Book & movie reviews with a bite. 17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing. 👇 Dunk into our latest posts
Think you know vampires? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. gnofhorror.com/jockula-gayl...
Coming this week to GNoH. loads of reviews and interviews @mealygarage.bsky.social @rachelfeder.bsky.social @tommeadauthor.bsky.social @jonezyboy.bsky.social @leticiaasu.bsky.social
I have found the perfect supervillain/ superhero (I’ll let the public decide which side of good or evil you live in) costume.
Best Horror Films of 2026 (So Far) 2026’s horror ranks prove bloodshed and meaning can coexist. gnofhorror.com/best-horror-... @maddwolfcolumbus.bsky.social @frightclub.bsky.social
A slippery dreamlike psychological thriller woven through with folklore and otherworldliness. Morwood plants something small and wrong in the architecture of an ordinary family home, then watches it fester until the water rises and takes everything. gnofhorror.com/until-we-dro...
Wolf Magick by Paula Cappa: A Gothic Dark Fantasy of Shapeshifting and Celtic Folklore A shapeshifting werewolf novel steeped in Celtic folklore, ancestral guilt, and the pull of a place that remembers everything gnofhorror.com/wolf-magick-... @paulacappa.bsky.social @crystallake.bsky.social
New Review from @druidcat.bsky.social "It’s Charles de Lint with teeth, and a strong reminder that all those fairytales about not trusting those you meet in the woods exist for good reason." Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey gnofhorror.com/vervain-holl...
New review House of Wyrd by @splinister.bsky.social "Walk the path. Face the Devil. Find your mother." gnofhorror.com/house-of-wyr...
Kit Whitfield returns with an absolutely brilliant deep dive into the deeply unsettling horror masterpiece Possum gnofhorror.com/possum-2018-... @mrholness.bsky.social @kitwhitfield.bsky.social
New review Enter Vengeance by Weldon Burge: A Fury Works a Murder Case gnofhorror.com/enter-vengea...
New interview with Miranda Smith for her new slasher novel Scary Movie Night gnofhorror.com/scary-movie-...
New interview with the author of the book I can't stop thinking about gnofhorror.com/c-n-vair-int...
The folklore Disney left out: mermaids as prostitutes, plague-carriers and drowners of men. Most of us learned about mermaids from Disney, all red hair and wistful longing for legs. The real folklore is stranger and a good deal nastier. gnofhorror.com/the-dark-sid...
Touch Me frames tentacle sex as a drug metaphor for modern malaise. Olivia Taylor Dudley grounds the absurdity in real desperation—she just wants her mind to shut up. https://gnofhorror.com/touch-me-film-review-tentacle-sex-horror/
Run the tape on the most famous redheads in history and gingerly is the very last word you would reach for. Erik the Red built a country out of his temper. Elizabeth I stared down an empire. Gingers don't tiptoe. Gingers invade. gnofhorror.com/why-gingerly...
Fawn by @cnvair.bsky.social is a book I can't stop talking about And here are ten books that are a perfect companion read to a book that is something special gnofhorror.com/fawn-by-c-n-... @angelaslatter.bsky.social @emiliahart.bsky.social @gengornichec.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social
Mine did that once; they also found one of those hairdressing training heads. I had a heart attack. I thought they had found a dismembered body, until I was close enough that my dodgy eyes could see it wasn't a real head
Jeff Strand treats a daft premise with total commitment, and the commitment is what gets under your skin. Reading it is like being tickled by someone who keeps getting closer to your throat. @jeffstrand.bsky.social @deadskypub.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/fun-times-at...
The devil may have gone down to Georgia, but C.N. Vair knows he belongs in Appalachia. Her debut is folk horror with genuine ecological intelligence, a feminist argument sharp as new teeth gnofhorror.com/fawn-the-dev... @3ambooks.bsky.social
New double bill up at Ginger Nuts of Horror, and both books turn the blade back on the reader. 🩸 A THREAD. 🧵 gnofhorror.com/marion-by-le... gnofhorror.com/the-red-sacr...
New interview with @elainechen.com "Having a diverse slasher cast posed a challenge because, as you point out, slashers have a history of killing off the minorities first." gnofhorror.com/e-l-chen-on-...
This is folk horror that hands the crone the microphone, turns age into power and forgetting into the wound, and closes on a sleeping goddess who promises to begin again. gnofhorror.com/queens-of-th...
You closed the door. You said it was over. Titan would like a word. Some things you bury. Some things bury you.
She’s home. Feeling sorry for herself with a shaved belly and leg. And lots of drugs. She was on Methadone.
Stephanie Campisi’s The Unfinished Business: A Cosy Ghost Story https://gnofhorror.com/the-unfinished-business-by-stephanie-campisi-review/