The American Writers Museum of Chicago will open an exhibit in November on the influence of religion and culture on creative works, including the horror genre.

This year's Haunting Hooks competition, judged by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron, dared contestants to write an original opening to a spooky story about cursed objects SAN MATEO, ...

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 ...

Brendan Li, 17, will be signing copies of his debut horror novel, “Those That Cry In The Dark,” at Barnes & Noble on Saturday ...

While horror movies can be fun to watch, I feel like they just can’t compare to reading about things that go bump in the night. Why is that? I personally believe it’s because ...

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 ...

From 'Stasis' to 'Teeth of Glass', Jay Krieger compiles a list of the best point-and-click horror games out there.

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. The bestselling ...

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 ...

Deadline has partnered with The Brit List to profile some of the emerging writers who have made this year’s ranking of the ...

Since it's spooky season, and readers of all sorts may be looking for scares, KUOW's Katie Campbell called up a couple of ...