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There's a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for fictional horrors. That has never been true. The carnage of pulp magazines only gained popularity ...

There's something uniquely terrifying about a well-written scary story. There aren't jump scares or eerie soundtracks, just pure imagination twisting every sentence into something sinister.So, if you ...

One would think that there’s nothing more that can be thrown at audiences to scare them. Scary stories have been passed around for hundreds of years, if not thousands. Yet we still have people like ...

Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of ...

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Horror is particularly good at building bridges. Sharing what scares us — whether that’s zombies, ghosts, aging, or being left behind — helps us understand each other better. The best horror books of ...