Amity Gaige’s “Heartwood” and S.A. Cosby’s “King of Ashes” are among the year’s most chilling books. The year’s best ...

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 ...

"Legend Has It," a first novel from Milwaukee-born DJ Slater, was released in September 2025. It's set in Mukwonago and inspired by the Rainbow Springs Resort and hotel, which never opened but became ...

October is a boom time for horror stories, with fans preparing for Halloween by spending the month binging the best slasher films, monster shows and horror books. And for those who would prefer to ...

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 ...

You listeners out there know I love a good scare. So for our series asking authors for summer reading recommendations, we had to get some picks to keep us reading through the nights with all the ...

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 ...

In the beginning, Bill and Charisse Stark's little cabin in the woods appeared to be a serene, remote getaway in Kentucky's Red River Gorge. But soon the idyllic hideaway where the Louisville couple ...