(Editor’s note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of 2024, using Amazon Kindle release dates.) My fourth and final cryptid horror fiction chart of 2024 features the Top 10 plus 18 more honorable mentions. Luka T. Jacobs tops the list with the first book of her new... Continue Reading →
If I had one vote for 2024 Bram Stoker Awards, What Hides in the Cupboards would get it
I don't have a vote for the Bram Stoker Awards, but if I had one, I'd nominate What Hides in the Cupboards by Cassondra Windwalker as the best novel I read in 2024. As 2025 begins and I look back on the previous year, Windwalker's gothic tale set in the New Mexico desert is the... Continue Reading →
Deadline for 2025 Splatterpunk Awards is Dec. 31
The deadline for the 2025 Splatterpunk Awards nominations is Dec. 31. Works of Extreme Horror and Splatterpunk fiction published in 2024 are eligible, and anyone can email their nominations to splatterpunkawards@gmail.com. The emails must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Co-founded by authors Wrath James White and Brian Keene, the Splatterpunk Awards honor the... Continue Reading →
Cryptid Quarterly III (2024): Top 10 List of Cryptid Horror Fiction
(Editor’s note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of 2024, using Amazon Kindle release dates.) My third cryptid horror fiction list features the Top 10 plus 18 honorable mentions. The list is topped by a Michael Cole novel in the No. 1 spot plus works by many... Continue Reading →
Evil Dead Rise dominates 2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Credit: FANGORIA.com The possession film Evil Dead Rise dominated the 2024 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, notching four wins during the Oct. 13 show on Shudder. The fan-voted awards contest celebrated the best of horror in film, television, and video games released in 2023 and the first half of 2024. The fifth installment in the Evil Dead... Continue Reading →
Leede’s MAEVE FLY wins Best Novel at 2024 Splatterpunk Awards
CJ Leede's debut Maeve Fly won Best Novel at the 2024 Splatterpunk Awards, leading a trend where four of the five categories featured first-time winners. Maeve Fly, a serial killer thriller "inspired by the pages of American Psycho," was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in February. The seventh annual Splatterpunk Awards were presented... Continue Reading →
Cryptid Quarterly II (2024): Top 10 List of Cryptid Horror Fiction
(Editor’s note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of 2024, using Amazon Kindle release dates.) My second cryptid horror fiction list features the Top 10 plus 14 honorable mentions. The list includes the latest D.A. Roberts novel in the No. 1 spot plus works by many familiar... Continue Reading →
The Reformatory wins best novel at 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due followed up its June win for best novel at the Bram Stoker Awards by winning the Novel category at the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards on July 13. Billed as "a haunting work of historical fiction," The Reformatory is a novel that pieced together the life of a relative that Due's... Continue Reading →
Rants From The Black Lodge Podcast on hiatus till August
Rants From The Black Lodge Podcast released the YouTube video version of its 2023 sixth anniversary show titled "Reign in Blood: A Carrie Retrospective" on July 1. Host Brandon A. Lane and his sidekick Fat Tony take an irreverent but substantive deep dive into the 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel. Hopefully, the... Continue Reading →
Stoker winners Due, Carmen nominated for 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards
Fresh off wins at the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards for their novels, Tananarive Due and Christa Carmen received nominations for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards, which were announced June 7. The Reformatory by Due and The Daughters of Block Island by Carmen are two of the six books nominated in the Novel category for the... Continue Reading →