Horror Fiction

Coffin County by Gary A. Braunbeck is a horror story that goes beyond gruesome and gory details to scare the reader through faith and logic.

Dec 7, 2009 - Kristyn Gansen

Quite a few common myths about vampires originated from a single source - Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Nov 21, 2009 - Vickie Britton

Leonard Wolf's annotated edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula is packed with information-perhaps too much information-for every Dracula fan.

Nov 11, 2009 - Amelia Hill

Let the Right One In is the story of a friendship between 12-year-old boy Oskar and a 200-year-old vampire trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl.

Oct 29, 2009 - Roberta Goli

Over 100 years after the original release of Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, comes the sequel Dracula the Un-Dead, written by his great grand nephew.

Oct 14, 2009 - Christina Jones

A detailed look at Deborah LeBlanc's Water Witch and publication details for would-be readers and fans.

Oct 2, 2009 - Lindsey Mason

The new Harper Collins imprint leads with a dark psychological fantasy that mines similar fictional territory to The Wasp Factory and Let the Right One In.

Oct 2, 2009 - Colin Harvey

When the audience for fantastic literature was small, fans became publishers out of frustration. Except for the advent of desktop publishing, it's not so different today

Sep 16, 2009 - Larry Latham

No collection of Lovecraft's stories was issued in his lifetime. After his death, The Outsider and Others, in a printing of only 1,268 copies, sat in boxes.

Aug 30, 2009 - Larry Latham

This novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween should delight fans of the movie; it follows the movie to the letter, fleshes out the characters, and expands the story.

Aug 29, 2009 - Brett Hardel

Even after close to 40 years, Stephen King's Salem's Lot still ranks as one of the top stories about vampires.

Aug 24, 2009 - Mckenzie Cassidy

Vampires: The Immortal Damned is a collaboration of classic vampire stories by authors including Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley.

Aug 19, 2009 - Roberta Goli

This classic short story is the best-known one within Lovecraft's Cthulhu cycle, introducing readers to the main concepts of Lovecraft's cosmic horror saga.

Aug 17, 2009 - Maria Luisa Antonaya

From minor editorial advice to composing original stories from mere plot germs, Lovecraft considered revision his real job - when his clients bothered to pay him at all.

Aug 2, 2009 - Larry Latham

Just After Sunset is Stephen King's newest collection of short stories. It has over six years Everything'sEventual, kings last shost story collection.

Jul 30, 2009 - Shane Werlinger

There are people who insist that H. P, Lovecraft was telling the truth in his stories, whether he knew it or not.

Jul 21, 2009 - Larry Latham

H. P. Lovecraft's seminal story, "The Call of Cthulhu", was submitted to Weird Tales in the late summer of 1926 - and it was rejected!

Jul 8, 2009 - Larry Latham

Night Shade Books gathers the early horror stories of science fiction and fantasy author and military science fiction pioneer David Drake in this excellent collection.

Jul 1, 2009 - John Markley

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is one of the foundational pillars of modern horror fiction, but his work is little known among general readers.

Jun 25, 2009 - Larry Latham

With the Twilight series as popular as ever at the moment, here is a guide to blood sucking fiction for the vampire and Stephanie Meyer fans out there.

May 15, 2009 - Daniel Crudge

The story about Carrie White, a girl with the power of telekinesis, who eventually has her revenge on the school and town folk that teased and despised her.

Mar 24, 2009 - Roberta Goli

A book of ghost stories in the tradition of M.R. James written for BBC Northern Ireland, framed by two short novels set in the modern-day USA more akin to Stephen King.

Feb 27, 2009 - Colin Harvey

Walk into the dark with bestselling author Stephen King, who has terrified readers with his classic novels over the past three decades.

Sep 14, 2008 - Scott Hayden

Scott Smith's second novel, The Ruins, is a gripping and fast-paced horror story that plunges readers headfirst into unsuspecting and unrelenting terror.

Jul 19, 2008 - Lisa Rufle

Conrad Williams, Steve Nagy contribute stories, Tony Lee reviews DVDs, Peter Tennant on books, while Stephen Volk offers opinion on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend

May 1, 2008 - Colin Harvey