Into the Night: August and September 2022’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
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Into the Night: August and September 2022’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Into the Night: August and September 2022’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Let us guide you through the dark corridors of the best short horror fiction and poetry the internet has to offer in our monthly series. […]
December 22, 2022 Books
Body Horror, Pandemics, and Curdled Nostalgia: A Report from the 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Body Horror, Pandemics, and Curdled Nostalgia: A Report from the 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Standout screenings, nostalgia and other trends, and the long shadow of Covid-19 at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. […]
December 1, 2022 News, On Screen
How Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh Warps Your Brain with Language
How Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh Warps Your Brain with Language
Agustina Bazterrica’s acclaimed dystopian novel masterfully uses the artificially neutral language of fascism to immerse the reader in the same moral dilemma as its characters. […]
October 24, 2022 Books
Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror
Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror
Leech author Hiron Ennes writes about the terrifying history of medicine and the peculiarly intimate horror of having a mortal body. […]
September 28, 2022 Books
Parasocial Delusion: Welcome to the Basement of Your Number One Fan
Parasocial Delusion: Welcome to the Basement of Your Number One Fan
Number One Fan author Meg Elison explores the parasocial paradox between creator and fan, and how easily it slips into a toxic–and even deadly–dynamic. […]
August 30, 2022 Books
Tales from the Backlist: Necroscope’s Focus on Consent Recontextualizes 80s Horror
Tales from the Backlist: Necroscope’s Focus on Consent Recontextualizes 80s Horror
Brian Lumley’s classic Cold War vampire thriller approaches consent (both physical and mental) in a surprisingly modern way. […]
August 16, 2022 Books
Beneath the Ground and Under the Skin: Three Contemporary Novels That Reimagine the Gothic
Beneath the Ground and Under the Skin: Three Contemporary Novels That Reimagine the Gothic
How three contemporary novels–Mexican Gothic, Abigale Hall, and Leech–build new structures on traditional Gothic foundations. […]
August 11, 2022 Books
The Long History (and Bright Future) of the Found Footage Horror Novel
The Long History (and Bright Future) of the Found Footage Horror Novel
The “found footage” horror story is a popular genre for filmmakers, but there’s more of it in the literary world than you’d think–Nightmare Fuel author Nina Nesseth explores this slippery subgenre. […]
July 28, 2022 Books, On Screen
Reclaiming the “F” Word: Why We Need Fat Positivity in Horror
Reclaiming the “F” Word: Why We Need Fat Positivity in Horror
Nico Bell and Sonora Taylor, editors of Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, lay out why we need better fat representation in horror, and how to do it right. […]
June 23, 2022 Books, On Screen
How The Phantom of the Opera Still Haunts Italian and Chinese Cinema
How The Phantom of the Opera Still Haunts Italian and Chinese Cinema
Everyone knows Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage version, but Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel held a special fascination for Italian and Chinese filmmakers. […]
June 16, 2022 On Screen
Horror Punk’s Not Dead: The Adams Family Reinvents Horror Cinema on Their Own Terms
Horror Punk’s Not Dead: The Adams Family Reinvents Horror Cinema on Their Own Terms
An ode to the punk genius of the Adams, the indie family filmmaking team behind Hellbender and The Deeper You Dig. […]
May 17, 2022 On Screen
With Special Guest Star Vincent Price: The Horror Icon on TV
With Special Guest Star Vincent Price: The Horror Icon on TV
With Special Guest Star Vincent Price Vincent Price will always be a favorite of horror fans for his iconic star-turns in classic horror movies, like the Roger Corman Edgar Allan […]
April 21, 2022 On Screen
Tales From the Backlist: Anno Dracula is a Whole Introductory Course on Gothic Horror
Tales From the Backlist: Anno Dracula is a Whole Introductory Course on Gothic Horror
Kim Newman’s vampire supergroup of a novel is still wildly influential thirty years later–and makes a perfect gateway into the gothic. […]
March 7, 2022 Books
Come Celebrate Middle Grade Horror Alongside the Horror Writers Association
Come Celebrate Middle Grade Horror Alongside the Horror Writers Association
Kids are braver and tougher than we think, and the Horror Writers Association’s new Stoker Award category for middle grade novels is a great reflection of that. […]
January 28, 2022 Books
Tales From the Backlist: Sara Gran’s Come Closer is Waiting For You
Tales From the Backlist: Sara Gran’s Come Closer is Waiting For You
Sara Gran’s 2003 novel Come Closer is still luring readers in nearly two decades later–Drew Broussard examines how the book weaves its propulsive spell. […]
January 25, 2022 Books
Scares Across America Part V: South Dakota to Washington D.C.
Scares Across America Part V: South Dakota to Washington D.C.
Travel across America with the fifth and final installation of our compendium of horror books set in every state of the union (plus Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C.). […]
January 18, 2022 Books
Into the Night: The Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry of 2021
Into the Night: The Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry of 2021
Let us guide you through the dark corridors of the best short horror fiction and poetry the internet had to offer in 2021, from our monthly series. […]
January 14, 2022 Books
In Defense of Wendy, Barbra, and the Traumatized Women of Horror Cinema
In Defense of Wendy, Barbra, and the Traumatized Women of Horror Cinema
Why do we regard certain female characters in horror as weak just because they visibly suffer and grieve? Gwendolyn Kiste reexamines Wendy, Barbra, and representations of trauma. […]
January 6, 2022 On Screen
Into the Night: November 2021’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Into the Night: November 2021’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Let us guide you through the dark corridors of the best short horror fiction and poetry the internet has to offer in our monthly series. […]
December 16, 2021 Books
Scares Across America Part IV: New Mexico to South Carolina
Scares Across America Part IV: New Mexico to South Carolina
Travel across America with the fourth installation of our compendium of horror books set in every state of the union (plus Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C.). […]
November 22, 2021 Books
Into the Night: September 2021’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Into the Night: September 2021’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry
Let us guide you through the dark corridors of the best short horror fiction and poetry the internet has to offer in our monthly series. […]
November 8, 2021 Books
A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel
A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel
Last One at the Party author Bethany Clift explores the indefinability of horror, her own formative experiences with fear, & realizing she’d written a horror novel. […]
October 21, 2021 Books
When We Were Monsters: How the Monster Child Teaches Us How to Live with Darkness
When We Were Monsters: How the Monster Child Teaches Us How to Live with Darkness
The horror trope of the monstrous child can be a welcome mirror and a comforting reminder, as well as a way to dig for lessons in the dark. […]
August 26, 2021 Books
Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second Floor
Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second Floor
Horror fans like to joke about slasher victims running upstairs – but what if it’s actually not such a bad idea? One writer’s modest proposal. […]
August 19, 2021 Miscellaneous
