After another amazing year for horror fiction in 2024, it’s time to look ahead, and if the past year gave us a bounty, then the next is delivering a full-on glut. We’ve got new books from the masters ...

In Kerry Cullen’s uncanny debut, “House of Beth,” a queer 20-something finds that “straight” life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached. By Jenny Wu Our columnist reviews “Strange Houses” ...

If you don’t already know the name Daniel Kraus, that should change soon. The horror novelist has seen a meteoric […] ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. American Scary is a fannish book, clearly the work of someone who adores the genre and has ...

Edited by Neil Christopher, Kelly Ward-Wills and Anne Fullerton; Inhabit Media, 2025; 166 pages; $19.95. Halloween lies just around the corner, and darkness is increasing its hold over our world. So ...

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 ...

Patrick Ness ('Chaos Walking') and James S.A. Corey ('The Expanse' series) are among the authors releasing new titles this ...

The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed; The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro; No Ghosts by Max Lury; Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler; Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon ...

Keaton Patterson, longtime lead buyer at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, has launched Grave Empire, a one-man publishing ...

Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright ...