Literary Hub » fear

Waves and Wipeouts: On Learning How to Surf As an Adult

Waves and Wipeouts: On Learning How to Surf As an Adult

David Litt Considers the Value of Fear and Persistence in the Pursuit of a New Skill

By David Litt | June 25, 2025

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

"I spend the hours-long dream chanting the line, determined to remember it, because the part of me that is awake, that is aware, knows I will want it later."

By Hala Alyan | June 9, 2025

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya on the Real Consequences of Fearing Books

By Sarah Chihaya | February 4, 2025

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

“Why are aspiring writers convinced that ‘real’ writers don’t struggle?”

By Samina Ali | November 27, 2024

Why Horror Needs Humor

Why Horror Needs Humor

Tyler Malone Wonders If Laughter is the Best Medicine or the Worst Disease

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

By Danielle Trussoni | October 31, 2023

What Our Fear of Wolves Tells Us About Ourselves

By Erica Berry | February 21, 2023

Manhood.">Josh Hawley, the man who fled from danger of his own making, wrote a book called Manhood.

By Jonny Diamond | September 9, 2022

Turning Towards the Dark: Hala Alyan Explores the Psychology of Fear

Turning Towards the Dark: Hala Alyan Explores the Psychology of Fear

Emergence Magazine Podcast">This Week on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | May 24, 2021

Rage matter? It should."> Will the publication of Bob Woodward's <em

Will the publication of Bob Woodward's <em

Rage matter? It should.">

Rage matter? It should.">Will the publication of Bob Woodward's Rage matter? It should.

By Jonny Diamond | September 15, 2020

Rage, will have "explosive" new material about the president."> Bob Woodward's new book, <em

Bob Woodward's new book, <em

Rage, will have "explosive" new material about the president.">

Rage, will have "explosive" new material about the president.">Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, will have "explosive" new material about the president.

By Corinne Segal | August 13, 2020

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

Eva Holland on Writing About Fear

By Eva Holland | May 15, 2020

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Fiction/Non/Fiction">A Halloween Episode with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2019

For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

Sasha Sagan on Finding Hope in the Night Sky

By Sasha Sagan | October 24, 2019

Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

Clarice Lispector: A Woman Knows To Say No

Selected Cronicas, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero">From the Selected Cronicas, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

By Clarice Lispector | September 27, 2019

Page 1 of 2