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 ...

Kristina Grifantini, who writes fiction under the name KC Grifant, found inspiration for her debut novel in the local board game community. She and her husband joined a local game of “Doomtown,” a ...

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 ...

“Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions” is a collection of varied thriller tales by John Langan. For more than 20 years, John Langan has been writing and publishing horror fiction. On Aug. 5, he’ll be ...