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Since a great horrorbook lives or dies by its ending, it is no surprise that classics like The Haunting of Hill House have twists that are truly jaw-dropping in their brutality. Although Stephen King ...

It has been another banner year for literary horror. Somehow, as the world gets scarier, the writers penning our nightmares still manage to keep up. What follows is merely a sprinkling — a light blood ...

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Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright ...