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 ...

This year's Haunting Hooks competition, judged by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron, dared contestants to write an original opening to a spooky story about cursed objects SAN MATEO, ...

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 ...

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Jon Kitley of Aurora has made a friend of horror. For 22 years he’s run Kitley’s Krypt, a site devoted to horror films, ranging from the earliest silent nightmares to the latest terrors from overseas.

Want to learn how to write a scary story? Then join the Lorain County Community College Writing Center from 3:30-4:30 p.m., Oct. 27, for “How to Tell a Scary Story” workshop. Kurt Fawver, LCCC faculty ...

Want to read something really scary? Horror writing is very much alive – ALIVE! – in San Antonio. In recent years, the city has spawned a horde of horror scribes and stories set in the 210, with works ...

Maggie Boccella is a certified Babe With the Power and lover of all things pop culture. She’s a News Editor at Collider, as well as a Rotten Tomatoes and The Cherry Picks approved critic, who ...

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