“Halloween Memories: The Dark,” a short memoir by Scott Cole, author of TRIPLE AXE

I was twelve. We had just moved to a new town that August, and I hadn’t yet made any … More

Craft Essay: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN author Paul Michael Anderson

I want to talk about the limitless possibilities of what horror is and what horror can do. I want … More

A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of … More

Landscape with tree and leg Then you come across a tree,and hanging from its branch you find a leg—long, pale, … More

Apostle follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) on the hunt for his sister, Jennifer (Elen Rhys). He is told that … More

Horror has been with me from a very early age. I found several copies of The House of Hammer … More

My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea of … More

Halloween, six-years-old:Stephen King’s Silver Bullet,My brother and IChased by a mummy.The next year I dressedAs the Devil in red,And a … More

It was one of the most grueling scenes of my novel to write. A mother confronts the supernatural family … More

As I was poking around under the hood of my new collection, Our Pool Party Bus Forever Days: Road … More

It all began for me on a Saturday night when I was eight years old. I had awakened thirsty … More

They say there’s proof in the blood, that something can be in it that you didn’t put there and … More

An interesting thing happened in literature recently, and not for the first time. Most readers were looking at Big Five … More

The strange thing about Christy Crutchfield’s debut novel, How to Catch a Coyote, is not that it’s beautiful, but that … More

It’s relatively easy to find a crime narrative that’s gritty. However, finding one in which the grittiness intensifies once it … More