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 ...

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

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 ...

For centuries, the world has been graced (and haunted) by Gothic literature. The exploration of monsters, the macabre, fear, anxiety, love, and death—this genre has always attracted readers and ...

Mine Wars, Appalachian pride, and queer and neurodivergent identities take center stage in the latest novel by best-selling author Andrew Joseph White. Author Andrew Joseph White and the cover art for ...

The HWA announces this year’s nominees for Superior Achievement across twelve categories. This year, the thrill of ...