Tananarive Due and the rise of Black horror
Black creators have made their mark in horror film and literature, though they have had to work to get noticed. There are signs that this is changing.
“You don’t really believe what you read”: Stephen King on the attraction of horror fiction
Horror fiction provides a buffer against the ongoing stresses and upheavals of the real world.
Joyce Carol Oates on “the psyche’s deepest and most profound revelations”
In a brief survey of some core Western texts, Oates asks the key question, why do we want to experience fear in an aesthetic context?
Nathan Ripley on the intimidation of writing in “the best genre”
The author of psychological thrillers says his respect for the horror genre may explain why he has had difficulty writing in the genre.
Andrew Pyper on why he writes horror fiction
The number one reason? It’s fun.
The mystery behind the death of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 under conspicuously mysterious circumstances. A Buzzfeed mini-documentary speculates on what might have happened to him.
What we fear
The genre that preys on the subconscious is more varied and interesting that it is frequently given credit for.
Newfoundland’s Michael Crummey on history, story, and his latest novel, The Innocents
Michael Crummey talks fiction, Newfoundland, and landscape: “I had lived in Labrador for a while and I had the very real sense that this place could kill you.”
Family matters: Ashleigh Young on seeing, place, and her debut essay collection
Ashleigh Young draws on her own confusion, family history, and an idiosyncratic sensibility in her book of essays.
A portrait of the artist as a dead man: controversial proposal floated to repatriate the remains of James Joyce
Two Dublin city councillors have a plan to exhume the bones of the great modernist writer and return them to his birthplace.