7 of the Scariest Science Fiction Horror Novels Ever Written
Space is terrifying. Outside the protective layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, you find yourself in an environment which has made…
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Joe Hill on Full Throttle, Netflix Adaptations, and Working With His Dad
The collection brings together a number of Hill’s shorter stories, and comes after a pair of doorstopper novels, NOS4A2 and The Fireman, and…
Swipe Right on 21st Century Terror: Jason Arnopp’s Ghoster
When humanity looks back on our present day and is tempted to give it a nifty descriptor a’la “the Gilded…
9 Slim Horror Reads to Squeeze in Before Halloween
This is it, folks: the death throes of October. If you’re still working your way through our list of chunky horror…
7 Chunky Horror Epics to Keep You Up Until All Hallow’s
October is here, and we the people demand to spend it scared out of our wits. Happily, Big Publishing is…
A Reader’s Guide to Shudder’s Revival of Creepshow
The show promises a mix of original stories and adaptations of classic horror tales written by some of the genre’s…
A New Book Imagines the Undead Plague of The Walking Dead Hitting China
In fiction, the apocalypse is typically a local affair, the global impact notwithstanding. In the early days, survivors might catch…
The Twisted Ones Is the Scariest Book of the Year (and Maybe a Lot Longer than That)
I’ve been a dedicated reader of horror novels since I was in elementary school. A sad result of my overexposure…
10 Times Science Fiction & Fantasy Reinvented Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died 89 years ago this month, but not before ensuring his legacy by creating one of…
6 Fantastic Folk Horror Stories to Read This Midsommar
The film is part of a long tradition of folk horror, a rich genre going back well over fifty or…
Save Humanity: Read Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers
Some books offer a reader a window into cultural and political feelings of their time; reading them helps us understand…
Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red Is Not Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Christina Henry, the author of the Black Wings urban fantasy series, has, in the past several years, shifted her focus…
In The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey Delivers Atmospheric Dystopian Noir
The Grand Dark, the new standalone novel by Sandman Slim author Richard Kadrey, understands the true horror of a dystopia. After…
Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town Delves into the History of One of the Show’s Best Characters
Steeped in geeky pleasures like gaming and horror and drenched in ’80s nostalgia, Netflix’s Stranger Things seems rather unlikely as…
The Dystopian Satire China Dream Argues it’s Time We All Wake Up
In China Dream, Ma Jian’s biting, surreal, and sometimes nightmarish satire of modern China, the past cannot be sanitized. The (semi-fictitious) China…
The Enduring Legacy of Bunnicula, a 40-Year-Old In-Joke That’s Still Hilarious
In the Spring of 1979, Bunnicula hit shelves. And it stayed there. And it stayed there. And it stayed there.…
5 Recent Novels That Blend Sci-Fi and Horror
Horror and science fiction often go hand in hand. Fear of the unknown, encounters with the alien, life in a…
In the Darkly Humorous All My Colors, a Jerk Rewrites a Novel Only He Can Remember
Todd Milstead is a jerk. His friends barely tolerate him (and only because he supplies them with free food and…
7 Stephen King Books Almost as Scary as Pet Sematary
Whether you think the new film delivers the scares better than the so-so 1989 version, the source material still stands…
A Vein of Sci-Fi Horror Runs Deep in The Luminous Dead
Gyre Price is a young, desperate, reckless, and a liar—and talented enough that those qualities don’t matter. Not on this…