If you know me at all, you know that I love, as many people do, the work of Nic Cage. Live by the Cage, die by the Cage. So, when the opportunity to review this came up, I jumped at it.

When V/H/S first hit our screens in 2012, nobody could have foreseen that 11 years later we’d be on our sixth instalment (excluding the two spinoffs) of the series.

When someone is in a toxic relationship, it can affect more than just their heart and mind. Their bodies can weaken or change due to the continued stress and unhappiness that comes from the toxicity.

If you can’t count on your best friend to check your teeth and hands and stand vigil with you all night to make sure you don’t wolf out, who can you count on? And so begins our story on anything but an ordinary night in 1993…

The best thing about urban legends is the delicious thrill of the forbidden. Don’t say “Bloody Mary” in the mirror three times in a dark room unless you’re brave enough to summon her. Don’t flash your headlights at a car unless you want to have them drive you to your death.

A Wounded Fawn (Travis Stevens, 2022) celebrates both art history and female rage in this surreal take on the slasher genre.

Perpetrator opens with a girl walking alone in the dark. Her hair is long and loose just begging to be yanked back and her bright clothes—a blood red coat, in fact—is a literal matador’s cape for anything that lies beyond the beam of her phone screen.

Filmed on location in Scotland, Ryan Hendrick's new thriller Mercy Falls (2023) uses soaring views of the Scottish Highlands to show that the natural world can either provide shelter or be used as a demented playground for people to hurt each other.

For years, I have been a woman obsessed with the sensational work of manga writer and artist Junji Ito

Originally starting in the Netherlands in 1999, Big Brother is a hit reality show that derived its name from a character in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Throughout its run, Big Brother has spawned over 500 series across 62 countries to date.

Buffy Anne Summers is more than just a vampire slayer. She taught us to be brave. To never give up and to always fight for who and what we love, all whilst wearing a cute outfit in the process. That is why 19 years after its final episode, Buffy the Vampire Slayer remains a cult classic that will make a difference to more generations to come. Remember, if the apocalypse calls, beep me!

Rather than a retro ‘60s comic book queen or a ‘90s sitcom with a teenager and a talking cat, Sabrina Spellman of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (CAOS) is a 21st century witch with 17th century problems.

brothers Dean and Sam travel cross country on the hunt for demons, ghosts and things that go bump in the night…

Happily, her new anthology The Book of Queer Saints Volume II is being released this October. With this new collection, queer horror takes center stage.

It's fitting that Elizabeth Hand's novel Wylding Hall (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award; her writing echoes and pays homage to the subtle scariness and psychological horror of Shirley Jackson's works.

Penance is Eliza Clark’s eagerly awaited second novel following her debut Boy Parts, which found much love and notoriety in online reading circles.

However Nat Segaloff’s book The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear is a surprising and fascinating literary documentation of the movie that caused moviegoers to faint and vomit in the aisles of the cinema.

Nineteen Claws And A Black Bird packs in plenty of sublime and disturbing short stories across its collection.