Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

Mead Public Library and the Sheboygan Press teamed up on a scary story contest for students in grades 3-12. Seven winners were selected. Each winner will receive prizes from the library and have their ...

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 ...

The eighth annual program celebrates horror with curated adult, YA, and middle grade selections and welcomes Jennifer McMahon as spokesperson. We need horror now more than ever. Stories to unsettle us ...

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 ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...