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Why Horror Needs Humor

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

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2024

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On the Many Masks of Michael Myers, from Unknowable Force of Nature to Explainable Antagonist

By Michael Kraus | October 13, 2023

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Films That Dared to “Go There”... with Varying Degrees of Success

By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris | February 13, 2023

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Reuben Baron Considers a Trend in This Year's Festival Standouts

By Reuben Baron | February 7, 2022

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Elizabeth Horkley on Creepy Dolls and Taboo Territory in the New Ferrante Adaptation

By Elizabeth Horkley | January 27, 2022

21 Movies You Should Watch This Holiday Season

21 Movies You Should Watch This Holiday Season

Some of Our Favorite Writers Weigh in on Their Wintertime Picks

By Literary Hub | December 1, 2021

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula">Charles Band on Shooting Inside His Own Castle and Borrowing a Costume from Bram Stoker’s Dracula

By Charles Band | November 19, 2021

Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 6, 2021

On the Women Lucky Enough to Survive Horror Films

By Alyssa Pelish | November 20, 2020

Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as '70s mass market paperbacks.

Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as '70s mass market paperbacks.

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2020

Nosferatu the Vampyre"> Here is Werner Herzog's Eerie Prose Script for <em

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Nosferatu the Vampyre">Here is Werner Herzog's Eerie Prose Script for Nosferatu the Vampyre

To Be Read Aloud in His Voice, Obviously

By Werner Herzog | December 16, 2019

Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

The Third Hotel">Lurking in the Shadows of The Third Hotel

By Laura van den Berg | August 24, 2018

On Horror, Heavy Metal, and Why We Love to Be Scared

On Horror, Heavy Metal, and Why We Love to Be Scared

Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett May be the World's Biggest Horror Fan

By Steve Almond | October 31, 2017

Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother's Ghost

Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother's Ghost

Kayla Rae Whitaker on Finding Comfort in IT as a Child

By Kayla Rae Whitaker | September 11, 2017

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women's Bodies in Horror

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women's Bodies in Horror

"Horror films offer a fantasy space for women whose bodies betray them"

By Rebecca Harkins-Cross | June 8, 2017