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There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

Ever since its inception with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), a delirious mixture of violent death and familial conspiracy, gothic literature has been a restless cultural form, constantly mutating and assuming new guises but always exploring the darker side of life. Sometimes, its fashions are those of…

Shirley Jackson's most controversial shortie is behind Vault 11

The upcoming horror movie Horrorscope has changed its title to the much more generic Tarot, and genre fans aren't pleased.

Mike Flanagan opened up about what Season 3 of Netflix's Haunting anthology would have covered after Hill House and Bly Manor.

A truly scary story never really leaves you. It lurks in long evening shadows, calls out through mysterious bumps in the night and blows down your neck whenever you feel a sudden shiver. With Halloween approaching, we asked six of our academic experts to tell us about the scariest book…

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg count the slow-burn 1963 horror as one of the greatest of all time but it wasn’t always seen as a classic

With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in