"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I’ll never forget watching A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time. A movie about kids who are ...

A good scary movie is more than just the jump scenes and mysterious plot twists (though they surely help make it more interesting). A good horror movie isn’t remembered for its plot devices, but its ...

Fatima Naeem is a writer of sorts from Pakistan who has over five years of writing experience under her belt, and a completely accidental physics degree (because come on, no one plans these things, ...

The author of “Vampires of El Norte” and “The Possession of Alba Díaz” recommends books that dial up the darkness by turning back the clock. By Isabel Cañas Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American ...

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 ...

The monsters under your bed are subject to peer review. Since 2018, the University of Wales Press has published the Horror Studies series, a collection of academic writings on the horror genre.

Austin-based co-writers and co-directors Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall have always been attracted to the horror genre. Hall remembers being terrified as a kid to go to the bathroom because of the ...