Every month, io9 compiles a list of the new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books coming out that we think will excite our ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." HORROR ISN'T JUST a genre to read if you want to be scared. In its own way, it’s a comfort. As we embark ...

Horror books, by definition, are meant to keep you up a bit longer at night, wondering if the shadow outside your window is really the tree that has stood there ...

The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...

While H.P. Lovecraft was responsible for popularizing one of the most profoundly terrifying genres of horror imaginable, he was also a total bigot. A xenophobic shut in, many of Lovecraft’s stories ...

For as long as humans have been around we’ve been fascinated by monsters. Grendel. Scylla and Charybdis. The Purple People Eater. Each one of these uncanny beings remind us that there are creatures in ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Michaela Granger, owner of horror-themed bookshop Midslumber Media in Portland, Oregon, recently told ...