Horror books, by definition, are meant to keep you up a bit longer at night, wondering if the shadow outside your window is really the tree that has stood there forever or some newfound apparition.

Many of the best horror movies started out as literature before their nightmares were brought to life on the big screen. This does not just include scary stories or nefarious novels, but also creepy ...

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

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The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...

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