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 ...

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 ...

The award-winning author and college professor explained her creative process during a BookCon panel ...

Cuthbert’s third book, Self-Made Monsters, is a hybrid collection of feminist horror, and contains stories and poems featuring women as villains and victims, as bystanders and enablers, exploring the ...

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 ...

An author from Phoenix who spent brutal summers with a horror book in hand says a specific writer and Arizona's climate helped shape his path to becoming a published horror writer — and his literary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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