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A n advanced copy of Scream with Me! Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism by Eleanor Johnson found me in the ...

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 ...

After another amazing year for horror fiction in 2024, it’s time to look ahead, and if the past year gave us a bounty, then the next is delivering a full-on glut. We’ve got new books from the masters ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you our latest reviews , thrilling historical mysteries , the essential ...

Edited by Neil Christopher, Kelly Ward-Wills and Anne Fullerton; Inhabit Media, 2025; 166 pages; $19.95. Halloween lies just around the corner, and darkness is increasing its hold over our world. So ...

Despite our inability to find aliens (yet!) in our own extraterrestrial searches, our favorite movies, TV shows, games, and ...

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 ...

Once more, the stars are right. On Aug. 15, I’ll be flying from Washington to Providence, R.I., to attend NecronomiCon, which runs from that day until Aug. 18. Originally focused on H.P. Lovecraft and ...

We’ve come to the end of another year and another 12 months of publishing that proved horror fiction’s vastness, versatility, and sheer visceral power. In 2024 we saw new novels from some of the ...