We’ve come to the end of another year and another 12 months of publishing that proved horror fiction’s vastness, versatility, and sheer visceral power. In 2024 we saw new novels from some of the ...

Herein lies 15 horror stories so eerie they will haunt you for days, yet you won't be able to stop turning the pages.

Many recent horror TV shows prove how effective the medium is for the genre, and these modern books should become prestige ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. American Scary is a fannish book, clearly the work of someone who adores the genre and has ...

Our columnist reviews this month’s haunting new releases. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor. He is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning ...

From monsters to fungi to paranoia, our roundup of science fiction horror books is sure to give you the chills. Science fiction has a bit of something for everyone, from cutting-edge futuristic ...

After another amazing year for horror fiction in 2024, it’s time to look ahead, and if the past year gave us a bounty, then the next is delivering a full-on glut. We’ve got new books from the masters ...

Edited by Neil Christopher, Kelly Ward-Wills and Anne Fullerton; Inhabit Media, 2025; 166 pages; $19.95. Halloween lies just around the corner, and darkness is increasing its hold over our world. So ...

Ready to line your bookshelves? August’s hottest new books include riveting kitchen confidential memoirs and fantastical journeys to hell, literary TikTok horrors and swoony romances ready to fill ...

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 ...

Grady Hendrix is one of the biggest names in horror fiction today. He’s published 11 horror novels and won a Bram Stoker Award for his non-fiction book on the history of horror fiction. In this ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for ...