While plenty of horror readers love to be scared stiff by every book on their reading list, occasionally, a horror story that keeps things a little bit lighter can be a welcome relief. Thereâ ...

nearly every culture has some form of horror story designed to spark fear. Although spooky season is still a few months away, you don’t need to wait until Halloween to pick up a book that will ...

You don’t need Halloween to justify reading scary books, any more than you need sand ... Sadie Stein about the enduring appeal of ghost stories, Gothic novels and the horror genre as a whole.

These 12 horror books don’t rely on ghosts or gore—they haunt through memory, guilt, grief, and the darkness we carry within ourselves., Books News - Times Now ...

Considered by many to be the best-ever chronology of horror short stories, the book traces the genre and from its earliest iterations to modern day. (Well, modern at its time of publish in 1997.) ...

Stephen King's the longtime master of horror. He's also an ace mystery author and private eye Holly Gibney continues to be ...

"I grew up reading 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,' and Stephen Gammell’s illustrations are permanently seared into my brain. But I just finished a book that truly terrified me: In ...

there is no better time to curl up in your favorite chair with a cup of mulled cider and a spooky book. While I’m not an “all-out horror” kind of gal, I do love a really scary story that ...

More from Book World Love everything about books ... I grow nostalgic for the spooky anthologies that first introduced me to “scary stories.” I recall, with particular fondness, “Haunted ...

Comic books in the 1950s were full of superheroes swishing about in their capes and masks, but another genre was gaining ground fast - horror ... by some of the stories that they told.