Horror Story Magazine

08/05/2023

08/05/2023

Pretty good bit about the intersection of teaching Shakespeare and writing horror.

A desolate moor, haunted by incomprehensible supernatural beings. Chains rattling in a dark castle, ghosts prowling the ramparts. A grisly co**se, hands chopped off and tongue sliced out. For any h…

04/05/2023

We do enjoy the blending of genres. What's your favorite cross genre blend?

From romantic sci-fi to cozy everything, these are the literary genre blends we need more of in our favorite bookstores and libraries.

02/05/2023

A discussion of horror. Interesting stuff here.

“The Horror! The Horror!” panel at the 2023 Unbound Book Festival gave horror fans the chance to hear the ways in which horror exposes the truth about our real world.

02/05/2023

There's actually quite a lot you can learn from reading bad fiction.

What can a bad story teach us? Turns out, it's a lot.

01/05/2023

I'm dying.

27/04/2023

Pennywise?

27/04/2023

Charles. I teach it in 6th grade ELA. One student tried to tell me it is horror. Hmmm.

Shirley Jackson, Charles, and the sixth-grade student April 27, 2023 Clay Insight 0 By day I’m a teacher and from time to time, I’m tasked with teaching 5th-grade English. The class is a joy and one story I enjoy teaching is Charles by Shirley Jackson. It is a terrific short story and the kids, ...

26/04/2023

My teen years ... in the 80s.

26/04/2023

Writers. Poetry can help strengthen your novel.

How reading and writing poetry can help strengthen your prose and add a memorable flavor to your exposition.

24/04/2023

I think from this list, Pale Blue Eye. However, I liked Knock at the Cabin as well. Haven't seen Evil Dead Rise yet, but hearing great things.

Need a good streaming scream? We've got you covered with the best horror movies on hulu right now, from the newest releases to the must-see scary classics.

22/04/2023

Love a great werewolf novel and this list is awesome!

These 9 werewolf horror books and short stories will have you howling.

21/04/2023

There are a couple of books on this list I'm not familiar with, but overall a good list. I do quible with the rankings on a couple books, but nobodys perfect.

Seminal texts, forgotten classics, and modern reinventions—they're all here, dear bloodthirsty readers.

21/04/2023

An update on the first edition, an idea for an anthology, and a bit more. https://buff.ly/3UVeAdm

20/04/2023

Can you guess the horror novel based on its 1-star review?

You've seen every movie on Shudder and have a whole bookshelf devoted to King, but can you guess the horror book based on its 1-star reviews?

20/04/2023

The worst.

19/04/2023

I thought so!

19/04/2023

OMG this is too much.

18/04/2023

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18/04/2023

Such good choices! We might quibble with the order a little, but this list hits it.

If you're looking to take a break from modern-day horror, here are ten historical horror movies that you need to check out!

17/04/2023

The unreliable narrator is one of our favorite literary tools.

These horror novels play with the trust between readers and narrators to create unsettling stories you won't be able to get out of your head.

14/04/2023

The book that turned me into a "grown up" horror fan. Of coure it was Stephen King. Of course.

When I became a “grown up” horror fan April 14, 2023 Clay Kitchen Sink 0 I turned 11 in 1980, the year the movie The Shining came out. I begged my mom to see it and while I’d watched a lot of “horror movies” she was a big reluctant to take me to see a movie that was rated R. So we entered ...

14/04/2023

Pretty good take on the persistence of horror fiction.

Horror Fiction: The persistent popularity and success of scary tales for scary times Posted by TheConversation | Oct 31, 2022 By Ali Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The wind...

13/04/2023

Oh yes. This looks like one to see!

'The Last Voyage of the Demeter' Director Andre Ovredal describes his feature as 'Alien' on the Ocean and horrors that await in new interview

13/04/2023

I can admit to not being much of a fan, but he does have an undeniable influence on horror literature.

Considered the grandfather of horror fiction, H.P. Lovecraft had a life fraught with sadness and hardships.

12/04/2023

Sadly, at some point in your writing life, you'll get a bad review. If it is constructive, you might learn a little from it. If not, well ...

You do it, I do it, we all do it. Let's make it suck a little less.

12/04/2023

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11/04/2023

This one always makes me giggle.

10/04/2023

I am here to say 100 percent. The end of Carrie scared the p*e out of me when I was a little 9-year-old kid.

My first jump scare April 10, 2023 Clay Insight 0 From a very young age, I cut my teeth on monster movies. I call them that because I’m not sure Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and company qualify as horror. I still remember being angry in first grade (1975) because I had football practice after school, ...

10/04/2023

Love a good RPG. This one could be fun...

New RPG Core Book by Monte Cook Games

06/04/2023

The Chicago Horror scene sounds like a blast!

We're diving into the expanding community of horror film fans in the Windy City.

05/04/2023

Bye bye skipper. The one that did me in.

The Giant Spider Invasion: The one that did me in April 5, 2023 Clay Insight 0 1975. I was six years old, and not realizing it then, my parents were dead broke. So a form of entertainment was going to the drive-in theater where my parents, sister, and I could enter and watch two movies for a few dol...

05/04/2023

We love Manley Wade Wellman and John the Balladeer. What a great offering from Haffner Press.

Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Stephen Jones, Pat LoBrutto Afterword by Hedges Capers, Karl Edward Wagner Cover Art by Raymond Swanland Illustrated by Tim Kirk

02/04/2023

It's at least kind of funny.

31/03/2023

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28/03/2023

A great and tremendously versatile writer with a new book out.

The horror superstar made up just one thing in his new novel: the monster. Somehow, that's not the scariest threat in his chilling tale about the American frontier.

27/03/2023

You know, I'd never thought of it before, but yea, this is a good question.

The UK’s horror fiction legend has had surprisingly little of his extensive bibliography adapted for the big screen.