The inaugural One of Us Midwest Horror Fest will be held at Public Space One in Iowa City Sept. 6. In Iowa City, writers can thrive. The city’s “City of Literature” designation and the Iowa Writers’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spooky season is upon us and what better way to get in the spirit than by cuddling up with a good book? Horror novels are the perfect way to imbibe in Halloween time. When they’re good, they’re fully ...

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” ...

Page Street Publishing will make its first foray into adult fiction with a new line of horror books, set to launch in 2025. The Salem, Mass.–based publisher of nonfiction, YA, and picture books has ...

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

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 ...

So, with Halloween on the horizon, I gathered up what I find to be the 20 most frightening short stories in King’s entire output, from early tales to recent releases. I tried to avoid longer pieces ...

“It’s the night of October 31, 2006. 22 years ago, on October 31, 1984, my daughter was gang raped and murdered, exactly at this hour, on this flyover. She was only 17.” “W … why? W … who?” “A bunch ...