A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the ...

Fifty years after “’Salem’s Lot,” Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so ...

In Jason Brooks’ The Death of Snow White (2025), fairy tale darkness returns in a bloody but uneven homage to the Brothers Grimm.

Although "The Long Walk" is often regarded as King's most "pessimistic" novel, per the BBC. The 2025 movie adaptation, directed by Francis Lawrence, leaves a little hope for the viewers with its ...

The rules for the 50 young men who’ve won a nationwide lottery to compete in the Long Walk are simple: Walk. Don’t stop, ...

Stephen King has made a lot of things scary over the years. Hotels. Classic cars. St. Bernards. Corn. That one laundry machine. Aliens that are super into butts. But in many of his stories, the ...

There’s something of the early feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper to the conceit of Vermin – the escape from a ...