Out of all my genre-favourite-lists, this one has taken me the longest to compile. Horror and I have had a rocky relationship. I’ve avoided it for years, only to develop a unique fascination and love for it later down the line. In many ways, it’s the underdog of genre-fiction; often dismissed as cheap/sensational entertainment by “serious” literary critics, for better or worse. To me, horror occupies a unique spot in the artistic landscape, despite or maybe even because of th

Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, horror was a genre I actively avoided. Having my only exposure to it as a child/young teen being the cheesy spooks of the Goosebumps-books, I never really developed a taste for them. Then, a few years ago, well into my personal reading-renaissance, I suddenly found myself possessed by the spirit of horror and delved deep into the dark, gothic and chilling side of fiction. As of today, horror is probably in my top-5 genres from which I read the

Gerne: Dark Academia, Mystery, Fantasy Published: St. Martin's Press, October 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The philosopher and critic Tzvetan Todorov defines the fantastic as the hesitation between the supernatural and a mundane explanation of an occurrence. In a work of fiction, when a woman in the woods sees a monster and turns out to be crazy, then that is realism. If it turns out that there really is a monster in those woods, then that is horror. But if one can make an argu

A reading-blog in which I attempt to beat my readingslump by reading recently released horror-novella's until I find a 5-star...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction with Speculative element Published: ECW-Press, October 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “If I were to tell someone...