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 ...

From the macabre stories of Edgar Allen Poe to Jordan Peele's award-winning filmography, horror has a long history of evoking jump scares and nightmares from its audiences. Yet despite the genre’s ...

Kristina Grifantini, who writes fiction under the name KC Grifant, found inspiration for her debut novel in the local board game community. She and her husband joined a local game of “Doomtown,” a ...

Erika T. Wurth grounds her horror fiction in historical contexts to underscore the genre’s roots in cultural storytelling. (Michael Teak) We often view horror as a genre of fiction defined by a dark ...

Matt Cardin, horror fiction author and MCC instructor, stands at the famous Oakwood Cemetery Cooper family monument, an ideal setting for a writer who interweaves religion into his tales of the ...

The HWA announces this year’s nominees for Superior Achievement across twelve categories. This year, the thrill of ...

HWA joins the immersive Colorado horror camp experience as a Community Partner, bringing panels, authors, and programming to the 2026 event.