We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The horror genre is not for everyone. Assuredly, plenty of people don't understand why some actually seek ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for ...

Between 2022 and 2023, sales of horror and ghost stories jumped by an incredible fifty-four percent in value, and in early 2024, sales continued to surge with another thirty-four percent increase. Let ...

You can (and should) read horror all year long, but there’s something special about cracking open a brand-new scary story when the leaves are changing and the autumnal chill is blowing in. Halloween’s ...

“This Is My Body,” by Lindsay King-Miller, is just one of the month’s notable horror releases. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is the horror columnist for The New York Times Book Review. He is a ...

Literary horror giant Stephen King rarely writes full introductions for contemporary books. Nat Cassidy's 'I Know a Place' is the rare exception to the rule.

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 ...

Horror is particularly good at building bridges. Sharing what scares us — whether that’s zombies, ghosts, aging, or being left behind — helps us understand each other better. The best horror books of ...