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 ...

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Nuzo Onoh, an award-winning Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent, is a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, amid 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 ...

An in-depth portrait of Mariana Enríquez and the unsettling power of her fiction, tracing how history, violence, and the body shape horror that feels intimate, political, and impossible to dismiss, ...

Are you looking to be inspired by a new biography? What about cracking open a heart-racing thriller? There’s always romance, too, if you're in the mood for love. Whether you’re picking another book ...

Ask a horror writer what influences them, and the answer often involves religion or history. When it opens Nov. 21, an exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Downtown Chicago called American ...