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Jack Nicholson peering through axed in door in lobby card for the film "The Shining," 1980. Horror is a polarizing genre. While one group of readers might find the suspense of each plot exciting, ...

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

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 ...

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 ...