Adam Page on when horror got smart… I’m not going to sit here and pretend that, before the 1990s, horror was in some kind of ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. This article is more than 3 years old. The Dunning-Kruger ...
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 ...
Nuzo Onoh, an award-winning Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent, is a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, amid a ...
The tea was strongly flavoured with cardamom and bitter almonds. He revised his opinion almost immediately. This was not a ...
Why do we love Halloween? Is it that we all like to be scared? Or maybe it’s that we want to conquer our fears? I recently took my two young sons shopping for Halloween decorations. Halfway down an ...
They say that brevity is the soul of wit, and Two Sentence Horror Stories messes with this sentiment by transforming microfiction into a bite-sized horror anthology series with mixed results. If ...
I’m a horror fan but with a visual medium, I don’t often find myself scared. After so long, the gratuitous gore can feel tacky and the jump scares are predictable enough that I barely flinch. I want a ...
Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...
Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...
Toni is a Features writer for Collider. He specialises in paranormal and supernatural horror, with a penchant for all things absurd. He is also a music journalist and the Head of Audio at QSO Media.