HORROR ISN'T JUST a genre to read if you want to be scared. In its own way, it’s a comfort. As we embark on a new year filled with all kinds of uncertainty (whether you’ll actually commit to those New ...

Bestselling author Stephen King, shown in a 1970 file photo. Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it ...

The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...