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 ...

Mason is a Senior Author responsible for the creation of Movie List Articles and Movie Feature Articles. Author of nearly 50 published articles, Mason's creative tenure with Collider only continues to ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. American Scary is a fannish book, clearly the work of someone who adores the genre and has ...

Ever wonder why audiences are perpetually driven to sit in a dark cinema and take in horrifying spectacles that push the envelope of what’s creepy and grotesque? Are horror movies actually getting ...

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 ...

Spooky season is upon us and what better way to get in the spirit than by cuddling up with a good book? Horror novels are the perfect way to imbibe in Halloween time. When they’re good, they’re fully ...

Across multiple episodes, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As fact and fiction blend, ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...