David Dastmalchian’s star shines bright in the found footage/broadcast horror Late Night with the Devil, a breakout sensation for Shudder.

Sydney Sweeney’s performance in Immaculate takes audiences by storm, launching the newly released horror film into heightened status. Spurring discussions on pro-choice and institutional power, the film is a refreshing new story in the nunsploitation subgenre.

What Sleeps Beneath celebrates Women in Horror month by highlighting our favorite modern scream queens. These actresses have graced the horror genre with their fearlessness, ingenuity, and skill in recent years and we can’t wait to see what they do next.

In Grady Hendrix’s novel The Final Girls Support Group, readers get a first person persepective of what it’s like to be a real Final Girl.

A lot of what the pros refer to as “creative nonfiction” will often have a headline that will be pure hyperbole and sometimes, clickbait. In this instance however, I’m not kidding.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a lasting scar on the world, but one of the few silver linings that we can take from the experience is the sea of pandemic-inspired horror that came out of quarantine.

The Book of Queer Saints, Volume 2 is editor Mae Murray's highly anticipated follow-up to her own 2022 anthology that rings terrifyingly relevant, forcing readers to confront cold truths facing us today.

Contributor Brandon Allison delves into the world of horror video games, where mirror neurons play a pivotal role, especially in those crafted to elicit spine-tingling thrills for our enjoyment.

Explore the dark side of politics this President's Day weekend with our bone-chilling movie list, featuring several commanders-in-chief facing terrifying aliens, zombies, the supernatural, and more.

There Is a Monster, a small budget supernatural horror film from writer and director Mike Taylor, is fresh out of the starting gate on VOD platforms. Based loosely on his own family’s experiences, There Is a Monster is a personal work for Taylor, starring Joey Collins as Jack, a veteran portrait photographer whose small studio is just starting to gain traction.

As we find ourselves in the midst of the years’ most frigid days, we are also at our most reflective. Seasonal solitude coinciding with holiday festivities creates a space to contemplate relationships past and present. Do you traipse around your house in the shadows of early nightfall? Catch a glimpse of a specter of the previous you? Or maybe, someone you used to know? Film grants us the opportunity to explore these experiences of isolation, contemplation, and fear of someone near and dear not being exactly the same as you remember.

Renowned author of the novel Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia weaves occult, supernatural, and conspiracy in her latest novel Silver Nitrate.

Obsession follows protagonist Shion, a loner-type teenage boy struggling with his relationship with his parents, his friends, and keeping his magic abilities secret.

In collaboration with Falk School, What Sleeps Beneath is proud to publish a scary story written by Mr. Kevin Goodwin’s first grade class. These youngsters tackle what makes something scary, and how teamwork can comfort even the most frightened.

Author Gregory William Mank reviews a piece of Hollywood history in Clive Dawson’s I Walked with A Zombie.

Mike Flanagan’s lesser known film Oculus has the trappings of your average haunted house story, but with a twist up its sleeve.

Released one year ago today, Michael McGovern’s Blood Ending takes you on a decades-long adventure filled with vampires and an angry alchemist with little-to-no opportunities to catch your breath.

Call it karmic retribution, or karma, call it fate, destiny even—everything is said to have its consequence. In the case of Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of The House of Usher, Consequence inevitably returns to collect on a deal made with the Ushers.

Get ready for Halloween weekend with a Beetlejuice inspired cocktail recipe that’s sure to raise the dead.

Flanagan’s remarkable understanding of the ghost story subgenre pulls through in his 2011 film Absentia in which the ghost stands in for a character’s pain.