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 ...

The horror genre has been popular for generations with many books terrifying readers. These film adaptations of books ...

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 ...

As a living legend, when Stephen King recommends a book, his opinion holds weight, and that goes double when it's a recommendation for a horror book. King has never been an author stingy with his ...

In many premodern societies, burial grounds were often located in a town’s center, merging life and death within a shared communal space. This closeness to death reflected an understanding of ...

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 ...

As the summer breeze begins to chill, Iowa City residents are prepared for the festivities that come with the fall season. The newest event to the literary community is One of Us, a new festival ...