вЂњ have all really pushed the envelope when it comes to new perspectives on the tradition, especially bringing in alternative folklores and marrying them with western вЂ“ white вЂ“ tropes,вЂќ says McRobert. This homage to classic horror is bang on for anyone who loves Squid Game Bea Carvalho, Waterstones buyer He points to authors such as Jones, V Castro вЂ“ whose Goddess of Filth sees four friends hold a seance, only for one of them to begin chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors вЂ“ and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, whose Mexican Gothic is a deliciously creepy twist on gothic horror, set in 1950s Mexico (I adored it). вЂњHorror is in a very exciting place,вЂќ says Neil McRobert, who hosts the Talking Scared podcast, which interviews some of horror fictionвЂ™s biggest names. A multi-layered dive into the heart of a horrific secret вЂ“ complete with talking cat вЂ“ it received a rave review from master of the genre Stephen King, who said he hadnвЂ™t вЂњread anything this exciting since Gone GirlвЂќ. Ward had already published two literary horror novels, Little Eve and Rawblood, when her latest work, The Last House on Needless Street, came out this year.

ItвЂ™s what horror is for: finding new, boundary-breaking ways to share fear and empathy.вЂќ Jones has published over a dozen novels in the US, but The Only Good Indians was his first outing in the UK George Sandison, who acquired it for Titan, said that вЂњone breakneck fever dream of a read later, my mind astray in the North American wilderness, thunderclouds rolling, elk breath at my neck, I realised I had to buy itвЂќ.Д«ritish-American author Catriona Ward calls Jones: вЂњa master stylist who takes risks with narrative boundaries, playing with the very idea of what horror isвЂќ. Stephen Graham Jones Photograph: Titan Books

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