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 ...

R.L. Stine, famed horror fiction author, shared his favorite books with Page Six. Titles include 'Pet Sematary' by Stephen ...

What better place to learn to write horror fiction - than in the Stanley Hotel? A hotel with a haunted history so scary it inspired Stephen King's novel "The Shining." The University of Colorado is ...

The author of “Vampires of El Norte” and “The Possession of Alba Díaz” recommends books that dial up the darkness by turning ...

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 ...