The Spooky Season: Joyce Carol Oates offers up fifteen tales of body horror by women
Body horror is by nature a visceral mode, and many of the writers here take full advantage of the gooier elements in their tales.
The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
The Spooky Season: The past weighs heavily in a supernaturally inflected first novel from Adriana Chartrand
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
The Spooky Season: Kathe Koja’s 1991 debut, The Cipher, remains a classic of the horror genre
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
The Spooky Season: Imaginative horror’s place in a disordered world
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.
Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.
High rise havoc and haunted houses: Andrew F. Sullivan and Nick Cutter deliver the horror
The Marigold is a quintessential urban horror tale; The Handyman Method relocates the terror to the suburbs.
The best stories in the horror anthology Found are those that interpret the book’s mandate broadly
It's hard to fault the contributors to the volume, or the ambition of the editors.
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel The Centre serves up a feminist horror story about language and storytelling
The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.
Toronto horror bookstore Little Ghosts expands its purview with a spring pop-up tour and new publishing imprint
“I’m not a professional person,” says Chris Krawczyk, proprietor of the horror-themed Toronto independent Little Ghosts Bookstore and Café. The...