and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror, and others. The books explore horror’s many facets, asking why we want to be scared and what these works say about culture and society at large. Highbrow ...

In three volumes spanning 60 years, the books recount the ongoing ... experienced an aesthetic and cultural resurgence. The “horror boom,” propelled largely by the phenomenal success of ...

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“[King] has one of the most accessible writing styles in books,” says Gavin Wichmann, a bookseller at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, Ohio. “I don’t read a ton of horror nor a ton ...

Halloween is the perfect time to tuck into a good scary book. And who knows scary tomes better than a horror author? From Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft back in the day to R.L. Stine and the ...

Given that fact, creating scary children’s fiction is an ... but her appearance is unnatural, adding to the book’s sinister aesthetic. Lilly’s story is just as eerie: It begins with Selma ...

That old aesthetic term for creeping dread ... I strove to channel that loneliness in my own cyber-horror book. The plot involves a video game that lives on the dark web and taunts potential ...