Although genuinely terrifying books have a lot of merit, the intentions of horror stories are not always to have readers cowering in terror, unable to even finish the story. Authors like Stephen ...

These are our picks for the best horror books of 2024. ... It starts with one of the oldest stories in all of horror: There’s a monster in a little girl’s closet.

20 Scary Books to Read This Halloween — Just Don't Turn Off the Lights! ... I do love a really scary story that makes me jump at every plot twist — or at every creak of my 200-year-old home!.

Filmmaker André Øvredal brought to life Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell’s beloved Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books for a Halloween-themed adventure, with the nature of the books and ...

No scary book list would be complete without the most frightening story of all time—The Exorcist. I first read this book while I was in middle school (my mother thought I would be scarred for ...

The original trilogy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books were hits with young readers in the ’80s and ’90s, and while similarly popular series like R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books were ...

Books: Horror Stories. 2 minute read. TIME. August 18, 1941 12:00 AM GMT-4. LOOK AT ALL THOSE ROSES—Elizabeth Bowen—Knopf ($2.50). Most of these 19 stories exhale a cold horror for middle ...

The story of an actor and a sound editor in 1990s Mexico City who get roped into a scheme to finish a long-lost film from a legendary horror director, it’s a book that slowly creeps under your ...