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These terrifying tales by the likes of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson are more than good reads: They’ll freak you out, too.

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Some of the best horror films ever made were adapted from books: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (who also wrote the ...

Horror disappoints eventually. Just a few years before the publication of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” (1764), the first proper horror novel, the philosopher Edmund Burke laid down the ...

Though modern horror books have evolved, classic, groundbreaking horror novels still have the power to chill thanks to their ...

John Carpenter's film output in the 1990s was decidedly mixed, including the baffling sequel Escape From L.A. (1996) and the ...