Tales from the Backlist: The Man on the Ceiling

Tales from the Backlist: The Man on the Ceiling

Tales from the Backlist: The Man on the Ceiling

In this edition of Tales From the Backlist, we revisit The Man on the Ceiling, the 2008 fictionalized horror memoir from Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem. […]

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March 4, 2020 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: March 2020

This Month in New Horror Books: March 2020

Check out the coolest new horror books out in March, from Warhammer zombies and two friends battling elder gods to ghosts on the Titanic and girls’ trips gone horribly wrong. […]

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March 2, 2020 Books

6 Creepy Books About Time Loops and Time Travel

6 Creepy Books About Time Loops and Time Travel

These sci-fi and horror novels about time loops, time travel, and other forms of time manipulation will have you checking your watch nervously. […]

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March 2, 2020 Books

Buyer’s Market: 5 Creepy Small Towns to Avoid

Buyer’s Market: 5 Creepy Small Towns to Avoid

There’s nothing like the horror of a small town where everyone – human or otherwise – knows your name. Here are 5 small towns we’ll skip on our next trip. […]

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February 27, 2020 Books

Stephen King on How Richard Chizmar Helped Gwendy Escape Oblivion

Stephen King on How Richard Chizmar Helped Gwendy Escape Oblivion

Stephen King explains how he and Richard Chizmar brought Gwendy to life in Gwendy’s Magic Feather, the second book in the Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy. […]

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February 24, 2020 Books

Horrifying History: 6 Nonfiction Stories Behind the Scares

Horrifying History: 6 Nonfiction Stories Behind the Scares

The best horror stories have a kernel of truth – we’ve paired 6 nonfiction historical books with 6 horror novels to illustrate these horrifying histories. […]

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February 14, 2020 Books

Announcement: More Seats Around the Fire

Announcement: More Seats Around the Fire

Nightfire’s free audio-only horror anthology, Come Join Us By The Fire, is now available on Spotify and other digital audiobook retailers! […]

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February 12, 2020 Books, News

Our Bodies, Our Scares: 7 Intimate Works of Body Horror

Our Bodies, Our Scares: 7 Intimate Works of Body Horror

There’s no horror more inescapable or universal than body horror – here are seven of our favorite body horror stories and novels. […]

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February 10, 2020 Books

9 Female Horror Authors You Should Read This Women in Horror Month

9 Female Horror Authors You Should Read This Women in Horror Month

Gwendolyn Kiste, author of The Rust Maidens, on nine truly terrifying women authors you should be reading during Women in Horror Month – and all year round. […]

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February 7, 2020 Books

My Bloody Valentine: 4 Novels That Mix Love and Horror

My Bloody Valentine: 4 Novels That Mix Love and Horror

Love hurts, sucks, and sometimes kills in these four horror novels about the dangers of romance, perfect for lovers and troubled hearts alike. […]

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February 6, 2020 Books

This Month in New Horror Books: February 2020

This Month in New Horror Books: February 2020

Check out the coolest new horror books out in February, from shocking reissues and monstrous anthologies to 19th century zombies and cursed waterways. […]

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February 3, 2020 Books

Scary Tales: Seven Dark Fairy Tale Retellings

Scary Tales: Seven Dark Fairy Tale Retellings

The fairy tales we tell children are often full of death & suffering – in these seven collections & novels, those stories get a decidedly darker treatment. […]

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January 31, 2020 Books

War is Hell: 8 Military Horror Books

War is Hell: 8 Military Horror Books

sample heading When I left a screening of Sam Mendes’s World War I epic 1917 last week, I found myself thinking that, more than anything else, he’d made a horror […]

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January 23, 2020 Books

The Horror of Ambiguity: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World

The Horror of Ambiguity: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World

The Cabin at the End of the World, Tremblay’s tale of a family vacation gone very wrong, will have you second-guessing reality, morality, and identity. […]

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January 17, 2020 Books

Six Works of Meta-Horror That Break All the Rules

Six Works of Meta-Horror That Break All the Rules

Horror is one of those genres that loves to comment on itself and its tropes – here are six works of meta-horror that break the rules and the fourth wall. […]

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January 10, 2020 Books

5 Horror Books That Are All About Family

5 Horror Books That Are All About Family

Family is central to the holidays, but not all families are happy ones – read on for five tales of familial terror. […]

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December 20, 2019 Books

Lifting the Black Rock: 5 Great Dark Reads

Lifting the Black Rock: 5 Great Dark Reads

These five works of dark fiction from Han Kang, Brian Evenson, Helen Oyeyemi, and others, will engross, enchant, and horrify. […]

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December 17, 2019 Books

Six Wintry Ghost Stories from Ellen Datlow’s Echoes

Six Wintry Ghost Stories from Ellen Datlow’s Echoes

Telling ghost stories around the winter holidays is a venerable tradition – here are 6 wintry ghost stories from Ellen Datlow’s Echoes anthology. […]

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December 13, 2019 Books

All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2020

All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2020

Get your TBR list ready: we’ve rounded up 65+ of 2020’s most exciting horror books from Stephen King, Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu, Max Brooks, and more. […]

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December 11, 2019 Books

6 Modern Takes on Frankenstein

6 Modern Takes on Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s foundational horror novel is still inspiring writers two centuries later – here are six great modern takes on Frankenstein. […]

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December 6, 2019 Books

5 YA Horror Books That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

5 YA Horror Books That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Featuring fantasy worlds, folklore, murders, monsters, and the undead, these YA horror books are sure to chill and delight readers of all ages. […]

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November 22, 2019 Books

5 Horror Reads for Fall

5 Horror Reads for Fall

November is still autumn, and autumn is still the perfect time for horror. Get into it with these five horror books. […]

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November 20, 2019 Books

3 Terrifying Tales of Lycanthropy

3 Terrifying Tales of Lycanthropy

Read these werewolf horror books by the light of the full moon – if you dare. […]

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November 15, 2019 Books

Five Post-Halloween Horror Reads

Five Post-Halloween Horror Reads

sample heading Halloween is over, but there’s still plenty of time to reach for a creepy read! Whether your taste runs to the psychological, the spectral, the gothic, or the […]

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November 11, 2019 Books

Sweepstakes- Hell House by Richard Matheson

Sweepstakes- Hell House by Richard Matheson

sample heading     Halloween may be over, but we’re ready to be spooked all year long. Here at Nightfire, we’re plumbing the depths of the formidable Tor backlist to […]

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November 1, 2019 Books, News

Why Horror Now?

Why Horror Now?

sample heading Horror thrives in times of cultural or political or economic distress. Universal monsters crept in right along with The Great Depression. Slashers boomed during the Reagan years, and […]

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October 31, 2019 Books

Tell Us: What’s the Scariest Book You’ve Ever Read?

Tell Us: What’s the Scariest Book You’ve Ever Read?

sample heading Happy Halloween, you fiends! Scary is so subjective – what scares you might not ruffle my feathers at all, and vice versa. Weirdly enough, I have a really […]

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October 31, 2019 Books, News

Announcement: Come Join Us by the Fire

Announcement: Come Join Us by the Fire

Announcing Nightfire’s first project: a free audio horror anthology in partnership with Google Play! […]

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October 17, 2019 Books, News

5 Books to Celebrate the Spookiest Season

5 Books to Celebrate the Spookiest Season

Spooky season is here again (though it’s always in our hearts). Here are five books to get you in the October mood. […]

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October 9, 2019 Books