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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is the perfect AI parable

November 13, 2025 9:21 pm

If Shelley’s Frankenstein was a warning to the Enlightenment, del Toro’s is a lament for the Anthropocene

Stephen King’s son, Joe Hill, returns after 10 years with King of Sorrow. (X@joe_hill)

Joe Hill's 'King Sorrow': A humdinger of a horror tale that makes you think

November 13, 2025 8:05 pm

Joe Hill's latest is a 900-page horror epic where summoning a dragon seems easy, but feeding it costs everything

The Conjuring Last Rites box office collection day 2: Vera Farmiga-starrer is 7th highest-grossing Hollywood horror film in India

September 07, 2025 2:00 pm

The Conjuring Last Rites box office collection day 2: The Conjuring: Last Rites smashes expectations, on track for $75–80M opening weekend.

'Sister Midnight', 'Weapons' and the cost of being a social outcast

August 27, 2025 5:35 pm

In both the unsettling films set in two very different contexts, horror stems not from monsters but from what society does to those who don’t conform

Stephan King and his book covers as Richard Bachman

5 horror novels Stephen King wrote as Richard Bachman; and why the pseudonym

July 15, 2025 11:07 am

Stephen King, for a while, had an alternate writing personality named Richard Bachman until Steve Brown, a bookstore clerk, identified him by similar writing style.

A lottery no one wants to draw: How June 27 became synonymous with blind tradition

August 03, 2025 10:34 am

June 27 dawns bright and ordinary, until Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ reveals its horror. Published in 1948, this chilling tale of blind tradition still sends chills down readers' spines

‘Jaws' at 50: How Spielberg made one of the most influential horror films of all time

June 23, 2025 3:39 pm

Most do not describe Jaws as a horror film, despite the elements it shares with the horror films that preceded it and the horror films it inspired since its release 50 years ago

6 reasons why people enjoy horror movies

October 30, 2024 5:39 pm

Horror movies can provide the pleasurable emotion we feel when witnessing the misfortune of others, known as schadenfreude.

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This is why everyone is reading more horror books now

April 08, 2024 11:55 pm

The rise of horror fiction has historically coincided with periods of social unrest. The current surge veers towards the political and the feminist, a reaction to and escape from some of the more terrifying real-life prospects

Malayalam cinema and the curious case of horrendous horror films

March 11, 2023 11:11 am

Though the Malayalam film industry has always tried to experiment with different genres, including horror with recent additions being the outstanding Romancham and Bhoothakaalam, it has also produced a slew of subpar horror films over the years that appear to be cut from the same cloth.