Two of the biggest sources for my nightmares are haunted houses and puppets—both of which feature heavily in Grady Hendrix’s latest novel How to Sell a Haunted House. Why are we always drawn to the ...

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For Mitch Goth and Brandon Rugzie, creepy goings-on in supposed haunted houses and the dark woods of Wisconsin are more than ...

Marrowstone, Jefferson County, the island that serves as the setting for Seattle author Cherie Priest’s new haunted house novel, “The Drowning House,” is an almost stereotypical horror setting. “It’s ...

What qualifies as the first horror story? Grendel in Beowulf or some other ancient tale? Maybe but I’ll bet the first horror story wasn’t a novel length epic but one told around a campfire. So the ...

Two families, both alike in dignity and each with plenty of suppressed damage, meet in a crumbling Altadena mansion for the reading of Oscar-winner-turned-recluse Vivian Yin’s will in Christina Li’s ...