The authors of 'Fiend' and 'Why I Love Horror' sat down for a conversation about how the horror genre has evolved — and why readers get to reap the benefits The horror genre is having a major moment ...

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Across multiple episodes of First Word on Horror, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As ...

Good morning and thanks for reading the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a novelist and punk historian, and today we’re going to explore the dark side of the bookshelf. If you felt a ...

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

Hispanic Heritage Month and spooky season overlap during the first half of October, making this the perfect time to talk about Latinx horror. Once almost exclusively the provenance of white authors, ...

For generations, horror writers have captured readers with frightening tales of vampires, demon possessions and serial killers. And the genre is having its own renaissance. According to the book sales ...

Author of such tales of the fantastic as Julia, Ghost Story, and In the Night Room, and editor of the Library of America’s H.P. Lovecraft collections, Peter Straub is uniquely qualified to hold forth ...

Mort Castle remembers being frightened when his third-grade teacher played Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” on a phonograph. “I was one of the weird ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Along with talking to supernatural experts Blade, Elsa Bloodstone, Daimon Hellstrom, and Magik, ...

Seeking a writer for a feature length indie horror film for ScreamU. ScreamU produces chilling, character-driven stories with a sharp focus on suspense, tension, and style. The company specializes in ...

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 ...