“For us, horror stories are a long, dark, scary tunnel. You hear sounds you don’t want to hear; you see things that are going to stick in your head. But if you keep putting one foot after the other, that speck of light at the end is going to grow a little bit bigger and […]
There’s just something off about subway tunnels—those dark channels deep beneath the city that seem to vanish off into the infinite distance, marked by stations that are lonely oases of dim light. Even a bright and clean subway stop can take on an odd, haunted air at times, felt even when filled with the busy noise […]
Another season of Black Mirror has come and gone (if a perpetually streamable show can ever be said to go), leaving us astounded, unsettled, and more than a little creeped out by our phones. Creator Charlie Brooker has announced a series of at least three forthcoming books that will feature new stories from established writers […]
The best horror will bite you. Scott Thomas understands this intimately. In Kill Creek, his debut novel, Thomas weaves together seemingly competing strands of horror—from the lurid sensuality of extreme gore to the unnerving slow burn of suburban and pastoral gothic—into a moving, terrifying tale of corruption, obsession, and grief. It’s a haunted house story, yes, […]