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.

It has been another banner year for literary horror. Somehow, as the world gets scarier, the writers penning our nightmares still manage to keep up. What follows is merely a sprinkling — a light blood ...

Our columnist on this month’s horror novels. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home.” His latest book is ...

We’ve officially made it to Spooky Season. September is here, the gateway to Halloween is open, and that means in the horror publishing world, everyone is putting out some of their absolute best. This ...

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 ...

The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...

The author of “Vampires of El Norte” and “The Possession of Alba Díaz” recommends books that dial up the darkness by turning back the clock. By Isabel Cañas Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American ...

Athens-based horror artist Nikos Tragganidas Posazennikov, more commonly known as Nick, channels his political outrage into comics that confront government corruption, authoritarian abuse, and the ...