Kristina Grifantini, who writes fiction under the name KC Grifant, found inspiration for her debut novel in the local board game community. She and her husband joined a local game of “Doomtown,” 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 ...

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 ...

Panick's founders include a coterie of entertainment and comics industry veterans, including several from the world of DC. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Actor David Dastmalchian is diving back into ...

When I left high school classroom teaching, I thought I was closing the door on that chapter of my life. Then the stories came flooding out through my fingers: stories of teachers, students, and ...

From the macabre stories of Edgar Allen Poe to Jordan Peele's award-winning filmography, horror has a long history of evoking jump scares and nightmares from its audiences. Yet despite the genre’s ...

In 2020, horror novelist Adam Cesare released his Midwestern Gothic paperpack Clown in a Cornfield,a modern slasher with hints of retro vibes – and a few twists. A sordid tale that is part teen comedy ...

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