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 ...

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Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

“People sometimes ask why I want to read horror at all, let alone write it,” says the horror novelist, whose new book is “Lone Women.” “So much writing glances off the hardest and worst experiences, ...

The Black Guy Dies First authors Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris reveal their gateways to horror, writing process, and more. In 2019, the groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A ...

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 ...