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“The Tell-Tale Heart” in Pictures
“TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” Daniel Horowitz takes on Poe’s classic 1843 tale of madness, paranoia, and murder. “Now this is the...
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Eyeballs Left Standing
The Alligator People (1959). The Invisible Man, neat freak by design, was known to fuss over the grit beneath his fingernails. According to British horror historian Denis Gifford, dirt threatened...
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A Crime Writer Turns to Crime, and Other News
A Texas crime writer has been sentenced to thirty years for paying to have her husband murdered. Ten things you may not have known about the Brothers Grimm. Is horror a genre beyond redemption? Or, as...
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Keep Me in the Loop, You Dead Mechanism
What’s Christmas without some ancient demons embedded in the chimney? On the evening of December 25, 1972, BBC viewers celebrated the birth of Christ by being scared to death. They learned that their...
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Librarians’ Darkest Secrets, and Other News
Shame! Librarians tell all. “I think that Napoleon was a terrific guy before he started crossing national borders. Over the course of time, his temperament changed, and his behavior was insensitive to...
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Gatto Nero
Corinne May Botz, The Roehrs House, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey Back in the day when video stores existed and I used to patronize them regularly, I depended particularly upon the judgment of a cinephile...
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Party Like Bilbo
Alan Hollinghurst is sixty today. Photo: Larry D. Moore HOLLINGHURST I was rather a goody-goody as a child. I hated the idea of being in the wrong and dreaded being punished. Everyone at my prep school...
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What Scares The Paris Review?
From a 1939 Dutch workplace safety poster by Gé Hurkmans. The book I find myself most often recommending—Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps—is perfect reading for tonight, or for any chilly...
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Trust Issues
How The Evil Within and horror games manipulate their players. A screenshot from The Evil Within. Few relationships depend more on trust than the one you have with your computer. Without faith in the...
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Twain Trove, and Other News
John White Alexander’s portrait of Twain, ca. 1912. At UC Berkeley, scholars have discovered a cache of stories by Mark Twain, written when he was a twenty-nine-year-old newspaperman in San...
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Beardsley’s Poe
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, made to accompany Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. Beardsley, born on August 21, 1872, favored the grotesque and the erotic in his drawings and had a large influence...
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The Horror of Philosophy, and Other News
From This Magazine Is Haunted, April 1952.Newly declassified documents have revealed that the British government spied on Doris Lessing for some twenty years and that they’d thoroughly imbibed the...
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The Art of the Fortune Cookie, and Other News
Your true creative calling. Image: Flazingo PhotosThere are any number of prestigious opportunities available to freelance writers—footwear catalogs, restroom signage, pamphlets about flossing—but it...
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Where the Hills Are Fog and the Rivers Are Mist
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country turns sixty.“The Dubliners of American Gothic”—that’s how Stephen King referred to Ray Bradbury’s first book, the little-known 1947 short-story collection, Dark...
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A Cataract of Ruin
Hawthorne’s scariest story.Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, 1839.“Even his bright gildings,” Herman Melville once wrote of Nathaniel Hawthorne, “play...
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Is There a Doctor in the House? And Other News
An ad for a show at the Grand Guignol.In search of some cosmic horror, something to give you seasonally appropriate nightmares, something outside the realm of the usual Lovecraft stuff? Try William...
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The Scary Peeper
Nothing so appalling … In Canada today, Home Depot announced that it was pulling a Halloween decoration called “Scary Peeper Creeper” from its shelves. Shoppers were deeply perturbed by the Peeper’s...
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Something in the Blood, Part 1
To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, we’re publishing a selection of excerpts from David J. Skal’s Something in the Blood, a biography of Bram Stoker, published this month by Liveright. First up:...
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Our House
Violence and gentrification in John Schlesinger’s Pacific Heights. Still from Pacific Heights. “This is our home. This is all happening to us in our home.” That is the sound of a white woman’s despair....
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Staff Picks: Bitterness, Blindness, Backing Vocals
A still from Notes on Blindness. This week I read Teddy Wayne’s Loner, an impressively creepy novel of first love, specifically the unrequited, unwelcome, male dork variety. With a straight A student...
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