horror

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

 
By Literary Hub  March 19, 2025
Speculative fiction

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

By Ruth Franklin  March 13, 2025
The Craft of Writing

Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

By Susan Barker  January 31, 2025
The Hub

It’s time to add horror and romance to the Best American roster.

By Drew Broussard  December 3, 2024
Am I the Literary Asshole?

My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett  November 14, 2024
Horror

Why Horror Needs Humor

By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2024
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Kemi Ashing-Giwa and CJ Leede on Scaring and Being Scared

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 23, 2024
The Lit Hub Podcast

Read Weird Books! This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 18, 2024
Horror

So, you want to read some horror? Here’s a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

By Drew Broussard  October 1, 2024
The Craft of Writing

Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

By Brian Evenson  September 13, 2024
The Hub

On the weird literary origins of Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…).

By Brittany Allen  September 4, 2024
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Ananda Lima & L. M. Sagas on the Devil and A.I.

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 31, 2024
Horror

What Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark” Can Teach Horror Writers

By Jordan Kopy  July 15, 2024
In Conversation

Autopsies, Necrophiliacs, and Werewolf Pandemics: Puloma Ghosh on Translating Grief into Literary Horror

By Melissa Lozada-Oliva  June 12, 2024
Film History

How Stanley Kubrick Brought Stephen King’s The Shining to the Big Screen

By Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams  February 8, 2024
Horror

Horror for the Holidays! Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

By Erika Johansen  November 30, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

By Fiction Non Fiction  November 9, 2023
Horror

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2023
Horror

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

By Justin Phillip Reed  October 31, 2023
Horror

Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

By Dorothea Lasky  October 13, 2023
Horror

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
What to Watch

The Changeling Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen

By Rebecca Ackermann  September 7, 2023
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Hope in Hard Times: J.R. Dawson, Chuck Tingle, and Durreen Shahnaz

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 9, 2023
Rereadings

Why The Turn of the Screw Haunts Us 125 Years Later

By Kate Griffin  June 5, 2023
Horror

What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

By Nicholas Binge  May 8, 2023
The Occult

Some of the Best Stories from a Century of Weird Tales (That You Can Read Online)

By Emily Temple  February 17, 2023
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