From the macabre stories of Edgar Allen Poe to Jordan Peele's award-winning filmography, horror has a long history of evoking jump scares and nightmares from its audiences. Yet despite the genre’s ...

As a living legend, when Stephen King recommends a book, his opinion holds weight, and that goes double when it's a recommendation for a horror book. King has never been an author stingy with his ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Mine Wars, Appalachian pride, and queer and neurodivergent identities take center stage in the latest novel by best-selling author Andrew Joseph White. Author Andrew Joseph White and the cover art for ...

Horror is one of the oldest literary genres, and with good reason: It supplies thrills and chills and shines a light on our darkest fears, all while we're safe and sound in our reading nooks. There ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The authors of 'Fiend' and 'Why I Love Horror' sat down for a conversation about how the horror genre has evolved — and why readers get ...

Monsters. Gore. Fear. These things make up most horror films, TV shows, and books. But for Black women, the horror genre is about more than just blood-filled entertainment — it’s also often about ...

Discover the origins of Latin American horror in ghost towns, haunted inns, and eerie landscapes. Are you afraid of ghosts? In this episode of Crash Course Latin American Literature, we pull back the ...