BRYAN W. ALASPA

When you hear the words folk horror , what images spring to mind? For many, it’s windswept English moors, robed figures chanting in stone...

Nothing gets under the skin—literally and figuratively—like a good plague. From the creeping dread of an invisible virus to the grotesque...

Hey, have you heard about my new novel The Given? It is coming out May 30 (or came out May 30 depending on when you read this). You can...

What really keeps you up at night? Is it the creak of a floorboard in the dark or the gnawing thought that you might be capable of...

If you've felt a shift in horror fiction lately—something more visceral, more unapologetically grotesque, and disturbingly...

The horror genre is constantly evolving, but in recent years, something strange and fascinating has taken root online—analog horror. With...

For fans of horror, few things are more exciting than discovering the roots of the genre’s most terrifying trends. Over the last few...

In horror fiction, it's often the masked killer, the ancient curse, or the thing in the shadows that keeps us up at night. But sometimes,...

If there’s one thing horror fiction fanatics know, it’s this: the scariest stories aren’t the ones that scream in your face. They’re the...

Let’s get one thing straight: horror doesn’t always play by the rules. Sure, we love our haunted houses, masked killers, and things that...

Let’s be honest — horror fans are a different breed. We don’t just want to be scared. We want to be unsettled . We crave the stuff that...

Let’s face it: horror runs on tropes. That’s not a bad thing. In fact, tropes are the bones  of genre fiction — the recurring story...

There’s a moment every horror fan knows — not the jump scare, not the gore, but the aftershock . That lingering discomfort long after the...

We live in strange times. In this so-called “post-truth” world — where conspiracy theories compete with science, where misinformation...

If you’ve ever found yourself lying awake at night, haunted by a line of dialogue, a chilling image, or an idea that burrowed deep into...

For years, horror fans have looked to the big publishing houses for their spine-tingling fix—names like Stephen King, Clive Barker, and...

What if your worst nightmares weren’t just dreams—but calls for help from someone you’ve never met… but somehow know? That’s the dark,...

There’s something magical about a stormy night. The howling wind, the pounding rain, and the occasional crack of thunder create the...

In horror fiction, trust is a fragile thing. When you pick up a book or settle in for a movie, you assume the narrator is guiding you...

If you’re a diehard horror fan, you know when a story is truly horror —and when it’s something else wearing a mask. Horror fiction has a...