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 ...

I’m a horror fan but with a visual medium, I don’t often find myself scared. After so long, the gratuitous gore can feel tacky and the jump scares are predictable enough that I barely flinch. I want a ...

In Kerry Cullen’s uncanny debut, “House of Beth,” a queer 20-something finds that “straight” life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached. By Jenny Wu Our columnist reviews “Strange Houses” ...