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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 ...

Sometimes I need to shake out of my routine. And to do that, I like to just scour over writing prompts and decide if they'll work for me. I try to put my own riff on them and add them into other ideas ...

Tananarive Due’s books scare me before I’ve even read the first page. She’s a horror writer, so of course creepy, supernatural things are going to happen to these characters. But Due’s writing is so ...

This year's Haunting Hooks competition, judged by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron, dared contestants to write an original opening to a spooky story about cursed objects SAN MATEO, ...

Ask a horror writer what influences them, and the answer often involves religion or history. When it opens Nov. 21, an exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Downtown Chicago called American ...