Cailynn's Blog

Both The Bloody Chamber and Ghost Summer prove that horror isn’t just about what terrifies us — it’s about what we inherit, remember, and reclaim. In the world of folklore and feminist horror, stories become acts of survival and transformation.

Some hauntings aren’t supernatural — they’re ancestral. The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo is a lyrical, unsettling story of memory, identity, and the quiet horror of forgetting where you come from.

This Frightful Reads Friday, we descend into the lyrical, unsettling depths of Our Wives Under the Sea — a queer horror tale of love, loss, and transformation from the ocean's dark heart.