We've all felt it. The feeling of someone behind you when you turn off the light and have to go to the next room, the fear ...

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

While the masses may get their seasonal dosage of fear from the screen, there is a largely untapped market in the horror genre: books. Many believe reading to be a comforting, if not obsolete activity ...

We hold these fears to be self-evident: Go outside alone to see what’s making that noise, that weird skittering, metallic scratching, and you won’t be returning to your couch. Answer your phone at ...

Mead Public Library and the Sheboygan Press teamed up on a scary story contest for students in grades 3-12. Seven winners were selected. Each winner will receive prizes from the library and have their ...

When we read a horror novel, it activates the brain’s fear response, releasing adrenaline and other stress hormones that put us on high alert, allowing us to experience a thrill without being in real ...

Spooky season is officially nearing its fright-filled climax, and if you’ve watched all the horror movies and revisited all the Halloween-themed TV episodes you can possibly stand, maybe it’s time to ...

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 ...

This is embarrassing, but scary movies freak me out so much, I watch with my hands covering my eyes. More embarrassing still? I keep going back for more. We all know that feeling of being terrified by ...

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