Like with any genre, horrorbooks often vary in terms of scariness and complexity, and those who are just starting out as horror readers may want to wait before picking up these 10 disturbing novels.

Shows like The Strain, Hannibal, and Penny Dreadful are modern horror adaptations with unique twists. Horror is ...

Monsters. Gore. Fear. These things make up most horror films, TV shows, and books. But for Black women, the horror genre is about more than just blood-filled entertainment — it’s also often ...

Horror Genre Definition. Horror can be defined by a work’s intent, according to Dr. Lisa Wood, an adjunct instructor and team lead at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and vice president of the ...

Talker Research surveyed 2,000 Americans who regularly read mystery, horror, thrillers/suspense or true crime books; the survey was commissioned by ThriftBooks and administered and conducted ...

Horror novels are the perfect way to imbibe in Halloween time. ... the book traces the genre and from its earliest iterations to modern day. (Well, modern at its time of publish in 1997.) ...

Both of these belong to the niche, explicitly unconventional world of extreme horror. To the uninitiated, a genre title that just adds the superlative of “extreme” to “horror” can seem a little silly.

The 37 Best and Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025. These reads will keep you up (and reading) at night. By Milan Polk Published: Jun 17, 2025 11:43 AM EDT. HORROR ISN'T JUST a genre to read if ...

For Boston.com Book Club’s October pick, we are reading a “chilling twist on the ‘cursed film’ genre” by the author Paul Tremblay. In the early ’90s, an unnamed narrator is recruited ...

In fact, all speculative and fantastical literature is relatively new. In their excellent book, Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene, Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles put the ...

Discover "Queer Horror: A Film Guide," a comprehensive book covering all things gay genre, co-edited by Sean Abley & Dread Central's Tyler Doupe!