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 ...

Nuzo Onoh, an award-winning Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent, is a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, amid a ...

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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 ...

Matt Cardin, horror fiction author and MCC instructor, stands at the famous Oakwood Cemetery Cooper family monument, an ideal setting for a writer who interweaves religion into his tales of the ...

ROCHESTER — Rochester author and podcaster Meg Hafdahl has made a science out of analyzing the details behind famous horror and mystery stories by going beyond the question of "Who Done It?” to “How ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The author of the 'Goosebumps' and 'Fear Street' series is a fiction-first reader but not everything he likes goes bump in the night ...

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 ...