Beta feedback is trickling in now for Weak in the Head, and it is good. The pace, the humour, the kills, and the chills, they’re all hitting the spot so far. ARCs going out early September. Keep your eyes peeled for the call, as I’ll be looking for some new early readers 🤘🏼❤️

From droll nihilism, unhinged drug binges, and murderous rampages to nightmare dystopias, madcap scientists, and razor-sharp short fiction, KHC has the bleedin’ lot. Come check out our authors and get your fix of homegrown British horror 👊🏼❤️

Bit of kitchen-sink horror for you, a glimpse at the banality of evil. This is from Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales.

Happy birthday to tremendous talent and top bloke @LexLoki I’m proud to know him and vouch for his bloody brilliant books. Dave’s Tales of Terror and Torment are amazing collections to rival Barker’s Books of Blood. Give em try and give Dave a follow as well 🤘💀 🎂

Good morning. The artist, formally known as 'Michael' of Kingdom Horror Collective here. It's my week to delve into the safe parts of my mind. Feel free to ask me anything... within context or reason. Next up, the horrific @Alexrites

Half way through this, and it's got everything you'd expect from @starkterror88 - bloody kills, laugh out loud dialogue, and page-turning pace. The unique, Steve Stark blend of horror, humour, and sharp social commentary. Great stuff 🔥

Okay, horror fans, I’m simply describing an observable phenomenon here, nothing more, nothing less. Do with the information what you will. After all, no one wants to be forced into enjoying themselves.

I, Jane Milkovich, have made it to number eight in the rankings of the excellent @AlreadyOverbook. Josh, mate, you are a star. Thank you so much for all the support you give us indie writers. Gonna get to number one spot either the end of this year or midway through the next 🤘🏼❤️

Trevor Payne is a drug-dealing thug, a bully, an abuser, a sadist, a psychopath. But what’s coming for him and his crew is something much worse…

Dead Orchid by Alex Sinclair.

When we’re not beating our own drum, Kingdom Horror Collective are happy to get behind fellow creatives, and our first shoutout goes to Shogun Films, who are doing amazing stuff on the horror movie scene. Check out their page in the comments and support them however you can.

Special delivery straight from Hell Courtesy of The Kingdom Horror Collective 🤘💀🇬🇧

Dead Orchid, by @Alexrites is a trip. It's Heart of Darkness meets Trainspotting in Cambodia, where a disparate collection of mostly horrible people meet absolutely horrifying fates. I often say I'm not the target audience for certain books. If I am the target audience for any book, ever, it's Dead Orchid. I've been to Cambodia. I'm very familiar with psychedelics. There's heaps of both here. Reading this feels a bit like riding a rodeo, in that if I break concentration for even a second I am thrown off and have no idea what's happening. It has the wild, chaotic sense of a debut bursting with ideas and honestly that's my absolute jam, so I'm eating it all up. It's evocative as hell, briskly paced and crammed with imagery that's both bleak and humorous, riddled with anxiety and confusion. It runs on similes and metaphor, almost half of the written sentences are just vividly creative bits of imagery. It feels like a bad trip and then a horrid comedown, written in a clammy fever-dream of a voice. It feels contagious. I love it. Its structure is also worth talking about - numerous POVs that interweave in unpredictable ways and lead to a satisfying if bleak conclusion. At about 80% it starts literally injecting more insanity until it goes full Evil Dead - I came out the other side feeling like I needed a wash. But it does have one major drawback, which is that it needs to be properly edited and formatted. Honestly, the writing is strong enough that il overlook it, something I don't do often. But it really trips over itself at times with errors and mistakes. If I had any other very minute critique, it would be that the density of metaphors becomes a bit of a slog in later, faster paced scenes that need to move faster. Neither issue takes away from what a staggering impact this book had on me. Some of the best prose and the worst editing iv ever read. 5 stars, I will read anything this guy writes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Also JOSS EXTRA MENTIONED