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Yolanda Sfetsos Interview
A missing girl named Molly returns sixteen months after vanishing in the woods. Her mother should be relieved, but Molly isn’t quite the...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 24, 20236 min read
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Weird History: The Safety Coffin
Ever wake up unground and realize you've been buried alive? No? Well, back in the day, it was a legitimate concern. In fact, it was such...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 21, 20233 min read
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20 Horror Novels About Writers
I love reading about writers. It's self indulgent, I'm sure, but there is something immensely satisfying about investing in a character...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 19, 202313 min read
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Hailey Piper Interview
A naked pregnant woman with a cavalry saber. A cannibalistic demon. A mad preacher. Over the course of one night in 1882, Annette Klein’s...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 17, 20236 min read
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Weird History Poll Results
The results are in and it looks like you want us to keep on providing weird little history lessons each week! Those lessons will resume...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 14, 20231 min read
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Ode to the Horror Novella
Even when my brain is too fried to sit down with a novel, I'm always up for reading a good novella. The size of the volume alone makes it...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 12, 20234 min read
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Cat Voleur Interview
A controversial comic creator is catapulted into a world of crime and obsession in Cat Voleur’s new novella, Revenge Arc. The synopsis...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 10, 20237 min read
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Tell Us What You Want to Read!
Hi all! We're still looking for more input on what you'd like to read from Frightful every Friday. We've gotten a few votes on our poll...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 7, 20231 min read
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Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs From Your Favorite Horror Writers
As a writer, it's a little horrifying to imagine my diaries and or letters being shared for public consumption. That said, we are all...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 5, 20232 min read
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Josh Winning Interview
A cursed movie remake. A child-star-turned-journalist all-too familiar with the original film’s sordid history. In Burn the Negative,...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 3, 20236 min read
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Weird History Poll
Hello all! While we love history here at Frightful, there has been less interest in our history lessons than our interviews, essays, and...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 30, 20231 min read
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New Releases: July 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 28, 20233 min read
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Leticia Urieta Interview
Leticia Urieta’s hybrid collection Las Criaturas uses poetic form and speculative fiction to explore numerous facets of the world and the...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 26, 20237 min read
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Weird History: Rabbits Beating Up Napoléon
When you spend a vast amount of time researching the odder ends of history, you start to see Napoléon Bonaparte's name all over the...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 23, 20232 min read
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GUEST POST: The Horror (And Triumph) of Coming Out
They call us late bloomers: LGBTQ+ folk who come out later in life. Who recognize or reconcile with their queerness in their 30’s, 40’s,...
Elizabeth Anne Schwartz
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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Michael Perret Interview
Michael Perret’s debut poetry collection The Chimera traces the tale of Smarra, an intersex human turned into a vampire during the...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 19, 20237 min read
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Weird History: Island of the Dolls
It sounds like a 1970s B-movie: Island of the Dolls. Only, this is a real place you can visit. Seriously. Just remember though that dolls...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 16, 20232 min read
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Spooky Books for Movie Nerds
Growing up, my love of horror developed through television and the movies. It started with Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 14, 202313 min read
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Matthew Stott Interview
Tales From Between is putting together a new line of mini-collections for the TFBPresents series. Each book features stories by one...
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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Weird History: The Unexplainable Erdington Murders
trigger warning: sexual assault Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest were killed at the same age, on the same day, in the same UK suburb....
Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 9, 20232 min read
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