Ask a horror writer what influences them, and the answer often involves religion or history. When it opens Nov. 21, an exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Downtown Chicago called American ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Horror movies have a unique status when it comes to screenwriting, as they offer a specific opportunity to teach aspiring screenwriters different ways to make their films more engaging. Anything can ...

Cuthbert’s third book, Self-Made Monsters, is a hybrid collection of feminist horror, and contains stories and poems featuring women as villains and victims, as bystanders and enablers, exploring the ...

New York, NY — The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards ®. The HWA is the premier writers’ organization in the horror and dark ...

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The HWA announces this year’s nominees for Superior Achievement across twelve categories. This year, the thrill of seeing the Final Ballot comes with a white-knuckle race in First Novel, with a ...