Horror fiction is having a genuine moment. In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror sub-category recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8 million. 7 million, with a further 34% increase in ...

Scary books, the good kind of scary, are magical—they make us feel things, we read them for hours under the covers at night, unable to stop, and when we finally do are sleepless for hours, tossing and ...

Our columnist reviews this month’s haunting new releases. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor. He is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning ...

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

Creepy, spooky, and scary middle grade books for kids are often readers’ favorite kinds of books. Here are the best scary books for brave readers! Because if your readers love a good jolt of ...

I have an unpopular opinion among horror readers: I don't think Stephen King is that good. He's prolific, wildly so, and I did enjoy his 1977 and 1987 hits "The Shining" and "Misery." But I read a lot ...

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then came my niece. By ...