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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The horror genre is not for everyone. Assuredly, plenty of people don't understand why some actually seek ...

Horror books, by definition, are meant to keep you up a bit longer at night, wondering if the shadow outside your window is really the tree that has stood there forever or some newfound apparition.

With the countdown to Halloween ticking down, we asked Boston’s horror experts — from best-selling author Paul Tremblay to Boston Public Library staff — to share the books that truly terrified them.

“This Is My Body,” by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month’s notable horror releases. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is the horror columnist for The New York Times Book Review. He is a ...

Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright ...

Monsters. Gore. Fear. These things make up most horror films, TV shows, and books. But for Black women, the horror genre is about more than just blood-filled entertainment — it’s also often about ...

New Yorkers just might find something scarier than a rent increase inside a new offbeat storefront. The Twisted Spine, the Big Apple’s first horror-focused bookstore, opened in Brooklyn this month, ...

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STEVENS POINT − Christopher Micklos, a Wisconsin horror author and filmmaker, will bring his "Tick Town" book tour to Stevens Point this weekend, according to a community announcement. Micklos will ...

What qualifies as the first horror story? Grendel in Beowulf or some other ancient tale? Maybe but I’ll bet the first horror story wasn’t a novel length epic but one told around a campfire. So the ...