While the masses may get their seasonal dosage of fear from the screen, there is a largely untapped market in the horror genre: books. Many believe reading to be a comforting, if not obsolete activity ...

When we read a horror novel, it activates the brain’s fear response, releasing adrenaline and other stress hormones that put us on high alert, allowing us to experience a thrill without being in real ...

We've all felt it. The feeling of someone behind you when you turn off the light and have to go to the next room, the fear that you're not alone and someone's watching you from the dark corner. Or ...

I have an unpopular opinion among horror readers: I don't think Stephen King is that good. He's prolific, wildly so, and I did enjoy his 1977 and 1987 hits "The Shining" and "Misery." But I read a lot ...

Horror books have long been considered inferior to "real literature," says Chelsea McKee-Trenchard, owner of Raven's End Books in Winnipeg-but more cities are helping change that perception. A rise in ...