“The children of the night. What music they make!” First published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to exert an outsized influence on popular culture
Vampires, it would seem, are everywhere in our culture.
In Bog Myrtle, author and illustrator Sid Sharp delivers a sharp rebuke to capitalism with a side order of comic folk horror
Sharp shares with Jon Klassen an affection for macabre conclusions in which the story's villain gets an exaggerated, though not unwarranted, comeuppance.
Forever young: In youthjuice, E.K. Sathue skewers the beauty and wellness industry with a twisted satire
Sathue's novel is the fist release from the Soho Press horror imprint Hell's Hundred.
Bestselling author Stephanie Wrobel talks about plotting, the difference between suspense and surprise, and the influence of one of cinema’s masters on her latest novel
"I don't think any of us are 100% good or 100% bad. And I think it's kind of boring to portray characters that way."
Hunger, anxiety, and pain are among the human drives horror addresses, according to Anna Bogutskaya in Feeding the Monster
At its best, horror has always skirted an anarchic or illicit sensibility.
“The language drives the story”: Caroline Adderson on process, Chekhov’s influence, and the importance of laughter in short fiction
"The problem in this country is that people seem to feel that if it's funny it's not serious."
Welcome to the rat race: Fifty years on, James Herbert’s first novel retains its pulpy ability to shock and offend
The one area that literary craft does get elevated a bit beyond a pulp sensibility is in the East London setting.
Ray Russell’s The Case Against Satan bridges the gap between pulp horror and the paperback explosion of the ’70s
Russell was an executive editor at Playboy, where he published such canonical writers as Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, and Richard Matheson.
In Maeve Fly, CJ Leede rewrites American Psycho with an L.A. setting and a female narrator
Leede's great sleight of hand is in her ability to make us feel something for Maeve.
Anne Michaels and Deepa Rajagopalan are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
With fully three-fifths of the nominations, the Giller shortlist continues the hot streak for Penguin Random House Canada.