31 Days of Horror: Day 12-- Weekly Links Roundup

Every Sunday during 31 Days of Horror, I will have links that I have gathered throughout the week to share here. 

And yes, I know it is Monday, but today is a holiday here in America so I moved the roundup to today.

Things featuring me:

• NYPL's Best New Horror of 2026 for Adults list was unveiled at my live event there on 10/6
• My latest article in The Lineup-- One Sitting, Chilling Reads
• Me on the Drinks in the Library podcast talking about The Only Good Indians
• Why We Love Horror: An Interview With Becky Spratford for the Fairfax County (VA Library)
• NYCC 2026 – Embracing the Horror: Modern Masters (Jones, LaRocca, Martell, Singer, Spratford, & Triana): write up of our panel (photo below) via Rob from SFFWorld.

Others links of interest:

• Seated and Screaming: a new horror podcast from Yaika Sabat. In this first episode Yaika sits down with the award-winning horror author, Eric LaRocca to chat about his love of Ethel Cain, the horror influences found in different songs and music videos, pop girlies, and more!
• Pick Your Poison: Paths to Find Your Next Horror Novel via Goodreads. Includes starter packs for top horror authors.
• 10 New Horror Books to Read This Halloween via Esquire 
• Everything Reactor has tagged "Horror;" this covers lists of books, short stories, movies, TV, reviews and more. You can use that tag all year long.
• Author Richard Chizmar recommends 12 Creepy Small Town Horror Novels of Halloween via People.
• A list made by Boca Raton (FL) Library of the most popular Horror novels of 2026 at their library so far. (I just finished a multi-month training program with this library for general RA)
• Resource: Bloody Disgusting, a website for multi-media Horror news. Free with email signup. This is a great place to get your cross media format information and be ready to provide readalikes for popular shows, movies, and video games.