Interviews

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

Dec 11, 2023

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 4, 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...

Nov 27, 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 20, 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 13, 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 6, 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)....

Oct 30, 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 23, 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 16, 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 9, 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 2, 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...

Sep 25, 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 18, 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 11, 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 4, 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...

Aug 28, 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 21, 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 14, 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 7, 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...

Jul 31, 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 24, 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 17, 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 10, 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 3, 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,...

Jun 26, 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 19, 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 12, 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 5, 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...

May 29, 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 22, 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 15, 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 1, 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...

Apr 24, 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 17, 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 10, 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 3, 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...

Mar 27, 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 20, 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 12, 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...