Steven Spielberg has always been conversant in the cinematic language of the horror genre, despite relatively few credits in the genre. His contributions as a writer...
Writer/director Izabel Pakzad built her feature directorial debut, Find Your Friends, from her own experience, an ominous car chase on a desert road late one night...
This Tempting Madness, the new thriller from director and co-writer Jennifer E. Montgomery, opens with a title card that ties it to a true story and...
There’s a layer of the mythic in everything Cynthia Pelayo writes, whether she’s charting the little-known history of her home city of Chicago or digging deep...
We have entered summer reading season. Schools are emptying, beaches are filling, and it’s a great time to pack a tote full of brand-new books and...
Horror films are each an exercise, in some way or another, in the controlled build-up and release of tension. This means a lot of things, but...
Terror Train, like so many other horror films of its era, was drowned out by a genre cacophony. The film hit theaters just a few months...
Hildur Knútsdóttir is just beginning to introduce herself to English-language audiences, but she’s already made quite an impression. Her horror novella The Night Guest was one...
I’ve often said that the horror novella is the 85-minute movie of the horror lit world. The format, typically resulting in a story between 100 and...
Aging caught up with Nick Cutter. Like most horror authors, the writer behind The Troop, The Deep, and other modern classics of the genre is aware...
For more than a decade now, Nick Cutter‘s novel The Troop has been one of those horror books readers just can’t stop talking about. If you’ve...
Make Me Better, the latest novel from genre star Sarah Gailey, emerges in a place you think you can predict. It begins with some classic genre...
Watching Faces of Death is a fascinating experience in 2026, made even more fascinating by the release of a reboot film that plays with the original’s...
Damian McCarthy‘s films are obsessed with ghosts. They lurk everywhere in his first three features – Caveat, Oddity, and the just-released Hokum – driving the plot,...
We’re right on the cusp of Summer Reading season, but you don’t have to wait for the beach to assemble a truly impressive stack of must-read...
Stephen King is not just the most famous and bestselling author of his generation. He’s also arguably the most-discussed author of his generation, because his work...
So much Gothic fiction is steeped in the peculiarities of time and memory, the myriad ways each of these elements can lie to us, change us,...
Sometimes I think that we genre fans who cling to cult and exploitation cinema and eagerly await new disc releases feel like the only audience for...
Among a certain crop of genre fans, Mimic has reached a status almost as legendary as Guillermo del Toro‘s still-unmade adaptation of At the Mountains of...
One of the great joys of any horror story is settling into a tale of well-worn tropes and scenarios and finding that they still have something...
What if the guy who finds the mermaid washed up onshore isn’t a hopeless romantic or a courageous prince? What if he’s just…some guy, living a...
We’re officially in Halfway to Halloween season, and horror publishing is picking up the pace as we get deeper into 2026. We’ve got much more ahead...
When horror fans talk about The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson‘s wildly entertaining and stunningly elegant prequel to The Omen, they tend to focus on one scene...
At this point, it’s a cliché to drop a phrase like “No one’s doing it like Attila Veres,” but clichés become clichés because they’re true. With...
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