A skeptical reality TV show producer and a misanthropic ghosthunter must team up to survive a shoot from hell…

On writing complex character relationsips, and moving from speculative fiction to horror

If you've ever had a best friend, this one's for you...

Jenny Hamilton reviews a fun but flawed new entrant in the horror canon.

We've got the usual horror suspects along with a wicker man and an artificial friend.

Comic relief, accidentally adopted into the group, and unapologetically themself — author Marshall J. Moore celebrates the Weird Li’l Guy

The 1958 and 1986 versions explore the same subject from different but very effective angles...

The start of a new dark fantasy trilogy, arriving October 2026

Ghost hunters? In this economy?

Cozy, comforting glimpses of life on distant planets and in alternate realities.

Our cultural obsession with Verne's predictive abilities ignores the real critical nuance and power of his writing, to everyone's detriment.

An all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro.

Jared Shurin reviews a sports romantasy about dragon racing.

The Riverdale and Love Hypothesis actor, however, is coy on which lesbian vampire book she’s thinking of

A new Avatar series, a reimagining of Carrie, and more coming this spooky month

Some cozy recommendations as we head into autumn (willingly or not)...

While the first volume felt very much like a Heinlein juvenile, this one has a different vibe...

It was Scotty and Uhura all along

A gorgeous and moving Ukrainian sci-fi film that deserves the widest possible audience.

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These changelings get to be more than just monsters...

A woman who eats a town's sins is led astray by a mysterious visitor.

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Ile-Rien is on its last legs, and invasion is a near certainty...

It's just pain all the way down…

Sasha Bonkowsky reviews a relentlessly visceral and gritty horror-tinged science fantasy.

Watts has directed three Spider-Man films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and co-created Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.

How the Stormlight Archive takes stock fantasy rules and turns them upside down

A classic tale of man vs nature, steeped in Japanese myth and spirituality

The next chapter in the epic fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief

Some cozy recommendations as we head into autumn (willingly or not)...

Alt: Emma Stone smiling in Bugonia

After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.

What's hard for us modern viewers to understand is exactly how filthy our forebears were. Not out of laziness or stupidity, but from the sheer privilege of living in that trough between Miasms running...

Plus: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and why it's never too late for Early Edition

We love a horror movie that looks at four different genres and says, "Yes."

We're starting off spooky season with dark fairy tales, cannibalism, and revenge...

The Project Hail Mary deleted scenes restore one of the book's most fascinating theories