Nothing is really happening with Harold; that is, until the surrealism turns into horror. 4. "The Dream" is another short story from SSTD (NB: I’m potentially biased here [as you’ll see again ...

In addition to his bestselling novels, Stephen King is also a prolific short story writer. Here are 20 of his best.

Short story ... feeling of mounting horror over 400 pages is no mean feat, but Maclean manages to mix nostalgia and nightmare by taking tropes from classic 1970s ghost stories and twisting ...

The “Old Coot” of the Mount Greylock area is one of the area’s oldest ongoing ghost stories. As the story goes, William Saunders was a North Adams farmer who left the Berkshires in 1861 to serve in ...

one in five of all books sold in the category can be attributed to the “Master of Horror”—plus, his 2024 release You Like It Darker has been filed under the Short Stories & Fiction ...

Rising stars like Tomoki Izumi and Sui Ishida bring fresh, unique takes on horror manga, showcasing modern terrors. ...

Indeed, as a genre, horror has always been best represented by short stories and novellas. The Stand, which perennially tops the popular lists of all-time greatest novels and comes in at a mammoth ...

There are so many reasons to love short stories; not least their ability to immerse us in new worlds in the time it takes to commute to work, or the common themes that weave through anthologies to ...

A "haunting" evening of ghost stories and paranormal hunting is set to unfold in Cornwall this weekend. The Kilminorth Paranormal Evening will include live spooky investigations, fireside ghost ...