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 ...

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 ...

As a living legend, when Stephen King recommends a book, his opinion holds weight, and that goes double when it's a recommendation for a horror book. King has never been an author stingy with his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Books are displayed at the home of the celebrated late ...

A little over two centuries before Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film adaptation of Frankenstein starring Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth came to the big screen, Mary Shelley set her mind to writing a ghost ...