horror genre

City of the living dead.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.

The vibes right now are very "Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

From 1942's "Cat People" to cerebral jolts in "Hereditary" and "Get Out," this cinematic scare tactic still shocks.

It just might be the great American art form. You can thank the residents of Salem for that.

Jeremy Dauber's new book explores the themes and origins of the American horror genre.

Isolation and a heady mix of hormones and fear provide the perfect setting for bloody revenge.

The first feature-length zombie movie emerged from Haitians’ longstanding association of the living dead with slavery and exploited labor.

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

From the first morbid films a hundred years ago, scary movies always been a dark mirror on Americans’ deepest fears and anxieties.

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

The heroines of 1970s and 80s teen horror movies were traditionally feminine, tough, and sexually confident.

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.

The author of 'High-Risers' revisits 'Candyman,' in which public housing is the greatest horror of all.

An interview with horror historian David J. Skal.

Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares are prominent in Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror.

The history of haunted houses in the movies.

A mythical creature that lurks in the pinelands of New Jersey has served as a reminder of the horrors that result when reproductive freedoms are destroyed.

"Late Night with the Devil," a “found footage” horror film, perfectly captures the mood and style that surrounded media depictions of the occult in the 1970s.

The SS Eastland disaster and Chicago's ghosts.

The Exorcist in 1973 and 2023.

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

‘Time Warp’ all the way back to the 1800s.

A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.

Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula in Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.

Whether exploring the dread of everyday life or the horrors of the occult, her ghost tales documented a nation haunted by isolation, class, and despair.

The great discoveries of the age captivated Poe’s imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.

Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.

His posthumously released novel, “The Man Who Lived Underground,” was written during a crisis of political faith.