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 ...

Jon Kitley of Aurora has made a friend of horror. For 22 years he’s run Kitley’s Krypt, a site devoted to horror films, ranging from the earliest silent nightmares to the latest terrors from overseas.

Ask a horror writer what influences them, and the answer often involves religion or history. When it opens Nov. 21, an exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Downtown Chicago called American ...

Nuzo Onoh, an award-winning Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent, is a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, amid a ...

On the evening of Wednesday, April 20, renowned author R.L. Stine was the guest speaker for the University Programming Council’s annual speaker event. The audience gathered at the Student Union, ...

In 2019, the groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror gave us a vital education. Based on Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman’s 2011 scholarly text Horror Noire: Blacks in American ...

Spooky season culminates with Halloween on Tuesday, but for horror devotees, the season is always right for a shiver. The Globe asked three of our horror-writing contributors to keep the spirit alive ...

Alma Katsu is a horror author and an expert in emerging surveillance technology. She's also a guest on Inverse Happy Hour to propel us back in time with her new book, The Deep, where eerie ...

Maggie Boccella is a certified Babe With the Power and lover of all things pop culture. She’s a News Editor at Collider, as well as a Rotten Tomatoes and The Cherry Picks approved critic, who ...

Want to read something really scary? Horror writing is very much alive – ALIVE! – in San Antonio. In recent years, the city has spawned a horde of horror scribes and stories set in the 210, with works ...

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