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Horror

A new book brings spooky stories from Madras Christian College and other ‘haunted’ places in India

Riksundar Banerjee
· Apr 18, 2023 · 08:30 am
‘Batshit’ is an engaging horror novel about the pathological effects of mother-daughter codependency

Veeksha Vagmita
· Apr 08, 2023 · 05:30 pm
‘Shurjo’s Clan’: In this novel, horrors of the 1971 Bangladesh war refuse to remain buried

Gemini Wahhaj
· Mar 05, 2023 · 05:30 pm
This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres

Dinesh Chandra Sen
· Mar 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm
How Edgar Allan Poe came to be the champion of the awkward and misunderstood

Scott Peeples, The Conversation
· Feb 07, 2023 · 05:30 pm
New in horror: In an apocalyptic battle between good and evil, a young girl fights for her causes

Richa Lakhera
· Jan 10, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Get over your fears. Horror fiction in Indian children’s literature is finally here

Rati Girish
· Nov 27, 2022 · 05:30 pm
In praise of Stephen King, the eternal ‘horror master’ of serious light reading

Ari Mattes, The Conversation
· Oct 31, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘The Stepford Wives’: Why Ira Levin’s feminist horror novel is still relevant 50 years later

Michelle Arrow, The Conversation
· Jul 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm
The borders of reality are porous in these stories of spirits and other elements of the supernatural

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
· Jul 13, 2022 · 05:30 pm
The rise, fall and resurrection of horror fiction in American popular entertainment

Ali Alizadeh, The Conversation
· Jun 15, 2022 · 08:30 am
The ‘Dracula Daily’ newsletter brings weekly comical twists to the 1897 vampire novel

Stanley Stepanic, The Conversation
· May 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘Dakhma’ combines Mumbai, the tower of silence, and an apartment building into an eerie novel

K Hari Kumar
· Nov 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined

Kashif Mashaik
· Jun 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘The Masque of the Red Death’: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 19th-century tale

Edgar Allan Poe
· Mar 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm
‘Ghost Stories’ trailer: The ‘Lust Stories’ quartet brings a series of horror short films

Scroll Staff
· Dec 13, 2019 · 05:38 pm
Watch: Stephen King unknowingly predicted the rise of Donald Trump in a 1976 book

Scroll Staff
· Jul 15, 2019 · 06:45 pm
‘Midsommar’ trailer: A sinister cult traps a couple on the verge of a breakup

Scroll Staff
· May 15, 2019 · 09:53 am
Watch: Horror movie character spotted at confirmation hearing for Trump's interior secretary nominee

Scroll Staff
· Apr 03, 2019 · 10:00 pm
The German book of ghost stories that inspired Mary Shelley to write ‘Frankenstein’

Fabio Camilletti, The Conversation
· Nov 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm