You find yourself alone in the woods in the dead of night. From behind, you hear the rustle of bushes. Now a twig snaps to your right. You try to calm down. It’s probably just the wind, right? No need to panic. It’s all in your head. Then in the corner of your eye, a […]
Autumn: great season, or GREATEST season? It’s more than the candy corn, unholy latte hybrids, and pleasure of taking your favorite sweaters out of storage. There’s something in the air right now, a chilly undertone that half makes you want to run around in the brisk, and half makes you want to hide indoors with […]
In honor of the witchiest time of year, we present five books that will scare you worse than the ingredients list of a circus peanut. From an offbeat ghost story to fairy tales that bite, these reads will have you ignoring trick or treaters in your rush to get through just one more chapter before bedtime: […]
Perhaps you like to camp, or long hikes, or to retreat into the wilderness to find peace and serenity. I’m told it is not uncommon—though, I, being a lifelong reader, would never dare. Why, you ask? Because dreadful things happen when you go into the woods—or so my steady diet of fantasy fiction has taught […]
The genre has a venerable, if disreputable, history in comics and graphic novels, particularly with the kind of old-school books that inspired King himself—think Tales from the Crypt. If you find yourself on a King kick after The Outsider, here are eight comics and graphic novels that invoke the spirit of horror’s modern master. What […]
