Five Horror Novels to Read With the Door Shut
October is here and the house is making its noises. Five horror novels for the season, graded by how far from the hallway you will want to sit while reading them.
Genre
Horror
Read with the lamp on. Then check the lamp.
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How to Read Horror Without Checking the Lamp
The lamp is on. You know the lamp is on. You can see it. And yet, at the end of every paragraph in which a door opens by itself, you will look at the lamp, as though it might have changed its mind.
The Horror Boom Is Not a Trend. It's the Weather.
Every few months someone writes that horror is 'having a moment.' It has been having a moment since the first campfire. What's changed is who's allowed to admit they read it.