Between 2022 and 2023, sales of horror and ghost stories jumped by an incredible fifty-four percent in value, and in early 2024, sales continued to surge with another thirty-four percent increase. Let ...

HORROR ISN'T JUST a genre to read if you want to be scared. In its own way, it’s a comfort. As we embark on a new year filled with all kinds of uncertainty (whether you’ll actually commit to those New ...

I have an unpopular opinion among horror readers: I don't think Stephen King is that good. He's prolific, wildly so, and I did enjoy his 1977 and 1987 hits "The Shining" and "Misery." But I read a lot ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." IT'S A NEW year, which means we're in the height of winter. It gets dark early, it may be cold wherever ...

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 ...

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 ...

These 13 bloodthirsty tales will keep you up at night with clever thrills and heart-pounding action. By Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times best-selling author of “The ...

Between his own bibliography and a creepily decorated home office, R.L. Stine has enough spooky material for a lifetime of inspiration. So why was it an everything bagel that led him to write his ...

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Would you believe I just happen to have a stack of YA nonfiction sitting next to me right now that I’ve been dying to tell ...