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INTERVIEWS
Frightful talks to writers and creators about what they're working on.


Interview Reading List: Part II
We don't have a new interview for you this week. Instead, we've decided to round up some new and upcoming titles from authors and artists...
Dec 11, 2023


Brian McAuley Interview
The latest installment in Shortwave Publishing’s VHS series is a wintery novella by Brain McAuley called Candy Cain Kills. From the title...
Dec 4, 2023


Jacob Steven Mohr Interview
It’s no secret that I love epistolary fiction. For those unfamiliar with the term, the epistolary format uses found documents in place of...
Nov 27, 2023


V. Castro Interview
The Haunting of Alejandra is a thrilling new novel by V. Castro, inspired by tales of La Llorona. Alejandra is a woman who is struggling...
Nov 20, 2023


Christa Carmen Interview
Estranged sisters. An isolated island. Family secrets. Christa Carmen’s The Daughters of Block Island is a subversive new gothic novel...
Nov 13, 2023


Rae Knowles Interview
Merciless Waters is a new sapphic horror novella from Rae Knowles, author of The Stradivarius (which debuted a few months ago in May)....
Nov 6, 2023


Mae Murray Interview
From Mae Murray, the editor of The Book of Queer Saints, comes The Book of Queer Saints Volume II. With this new installment, Murray...
Oct 30, 2023


Tiffany Morris Interview
From the Elgin-nominated author of Elegies for Rotting Stars comes a debut novella about grief, regret, and family. In Green Fuse...
Oct 23, 2023


Nat Cassidy Interview
Ana and Reid have an exclusive opportunity to live in a well-established New York City apartment building called the Deptford. It...
Oct 16, 2023


E.M. Roy Interview
Leo Bates’s small Maine town starts to fall apart when the girl she loves goes missing. And Leo, well, she’s the prime suspect. Forced to...
Oct 9, 2023


Angela Sylvaine Interview
Alien worms. A doomsday cult. Prairie dogs with a memory-loss inducing bite. Angela Sylvaine’s new novel, Frost Bite, has it all! Set in...
Oct 2, 2023


Gordon B. White Interview
Gordon B. White has a new short story collection coming out this fall called Gordon B. White is creating Haunting Weird Horror(s). White...
Sep 25, 2023


Karla Yvette Interview
Steeped in magic and pastoral images of an alternative American west, The Black Tree Atop the Hill is a mesmerizing debut novella from...
Sep 18, 2023


Kelley Armstrong Interview
What if the only way to keep your home was to open it up to strangers? In Kelley Armstrong’s Hemlock Island, this is precisely what Laney...
Sep 11, 2023


Interview Reading List
We don't have a new interview for you this week. Instead, we've decided to round up some new and upcoming titles from authors and artists...
Sep 4, 2023


Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Interview
Never Whistle at Night is a new anthology of macabre stories from 26 Indigenous writers including Kelli Jo Ford, Tommy Orange, Tiffany...
Aug 28, 2023


Roxie Voorhees Interview
The Longest Thirst is the story of Lillian, who flees across the desert to the town of Calico after killing her father. Billed as “The...
Aug 21, 2023


Jan Stinchcomb Interview
From the author of The Kelping and The Blood Trail comes a novel about a dark family legacy that blends elements of fairy tale and...
Aug 14, 2023


Patrick Barb Interview
Pre-Approved for Haunting: And Other Stories is a new short fiction collection by Patrick Barb billed as a “collection of weird, dark...
Aug 7, 2023


Steph Nelson Interview
Set in 1989, Steph Nelson’s debut novel The Vein follows Syl Dixon as she returns to the Idaho town in which she was raised. Now a failed...
Jul 31, 2023


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...
Jul 24, 2023


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...
Jul 17, 2023


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...
Jul 10, 2023


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,...
Jul 3, 2023


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...
Jun 26, 2023


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...
Jun 19, 2023


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...
Jun 12, 2023


Eric LaRocca Interview
Eric LaRocca is a riveting voice in horror. Their books include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes, They...
Jun 5, 2023


Stephanie Parent Interview
If you read Stephanie Parent’s debut poetry collection last year, Every Poem a Potion, Every Song a Spell, you know she has a compelling...
May 29, 2023


Premee Mohamed Interview
No One Will Come Back For Us brings together tales of cosmic horror and dark fantasy in Premee Mohamed’s debut short story collection....
May 22, 2023


Tiffany Michelle Brown Interview
How Lovely To Be a Woman is Tiffany Michelle Brown’s exquisite first stand-alone collection of short fiction and poetry. You might...
May 15, 2023


Katrina Monroe Interview
Last summer, Katrina Monroe gave us a haunting, gothic tale of history and motherhood with They Drown Our Daughters. Her new novel is...
May 1, 2023


Laura Keating Interview
A vanished sister. A mysterious videotape. The Canadian wilderness. Laura Keating makes her novella debut with Agony's Lodestone, a...
Apr 24, 2023


Scott J. Moses Interview
If you know contemporary horror, then you are probably already familiar with the work of Scott J. Moses. He has published over a dozen...
Apr 17, 2023


Nicole Eigener Interview
Nicole Eigener swept readers through time in their 2020 novel Beguiled by Night, which follows ancient vampire Louis de Vauquelin as his...
Apr 10, 2023


Jessica McHugh Interview
As we enter National Poetry Month, Frightful is talking to the Bram Stoker and Elgin Award nominated blackout poet Jessica McHugh. Her...
Apr 3, 2023


Lynne Hansen Interview
Often, when I look at a book and go “wow, that cover is incredible” I soon discover that Lynne Hansen is the artist behind it. Her style...
Mar 27, 2023


Grace R. Reynolds Interview
This week we are hearing from Grace R. Reynolds, author of the upcoming poetry collection The Lies We Weave from Curious Corvid...
Mar 20, 2023


J.A.W. McCarthy Interview
This week we get to hear from J.A.W. McCarthy, author of the upcoming Off Limits Press novella Sleep Alone. McCarthy’s novella is set...
Mar 12, 2023
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