Meet the Team: Eve Taft

“Do you read anything besides horror?”-my mother, Christmas 2025

It started with Kubrick’s The Shining when I was 14. I’d previously never been much of a horror fan, but after watching it with a friend, I was hooked. The book came next, devoured whole, and then I spent a month of my sophomore year hauling around the library copy of It. King was the gateway drug, sure, but soon enough I was watching all the classic slashers and building my library.

My mother, who had been thoroughly traumatized by Thinner when it first came out, picked up one of the tamer Kings (11/22/63) in hopes of connecting with her reclusive, black-clad daughter, tore through it, handed it to my father, and suddenly we were a horror family. My best friend (who I met because she was reading The Vampire Lestat in our social studies class) and I spent summers binging franchises, filming our own amateur scary movies, and arguing over whether ghosts were real. We were misfits, sure, but we felt at home among creepy things.

Living with an OCD and generalized anxiety disorder means that fear and I have been bedfellows since I was a child. Through horror, I learned to look monsters in the face instead of running from them. I became able to reckon with fear, to live with it, and to grow beyond it. Over fifteen years later, horror continues to be my buoy, my lifeboat, my lighthouse.

Favorite films in the genre include Scream, Oddity, Cobweb, Housebound, and It (1990). The Haunting of Hill House is the best horror series of all time, Knifepoint Horror and The Magnus Archives highlights of the podcast world, My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Pallbearers Club, The Book of Accidents, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle among my favorite books…and here is where I’ll need to stop and save these lists for future articles. There’s a lot I love, and getting to talk about it online is always a treat.

As a writer, I’ve published short fiction and a novella in the genre. The pieces, which I hope entertained and scared my audience, also helped me wrap my head around various things, and perhaps provoked reflection in others as well. A few were brought to life as audiodramas, which remains one of the coolest things to ever happen to me.

Writing brought me from the rust belt of the USA to Ireland, where I completed my MA in creative writing at the University of Limerick. After meeting the two ginger men in my life (one human, one feline), I put down roots in rural Tipperary. I write from a home surrounded by fog, ruins, and folktales.