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Folk Horror on Film

Seventeen movies with sinister pagan festivals, cultish locals, and witchy witches for you to watch through your fingers, this Halloween season.
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All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

Featuring folk horror, body horror, vampires, demons, literal hellscapes, and lots of haunted houses
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

Featuring first books from Matthew Aldrich, Nneoma Ike-Njoku, Desirée de Fez, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, and Sophia Huneycutt

On wellness culture, horror fiction, and shifting the blame

By Dawn Kurtagich

Folk Horror on Film

By Olivia Rutigliano

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas: Essential Holiday Horror Reading

By Kevin Johnson

Anna Maloney on Writing Badass, Believable Older Women in Thrillers

By Anna Maloney

5 Horror Stories with Settings Just as Creepy as Their Characters

By Katherine Daniel

Zelly Ruskin on Gaslighting, Relationships, and Psychological Suspense

By Zelly Ruskin

All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

By Molly Odintz

Olivia Blacke's Favorite Halloween-Themed Reads (Plus a Haunted Bookstore Tour)

By Olivia Blacke

Harry Hunsicker on Transforming Grief into Conflict in Crime Fiction

By Harry Hunsicker

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Peter Swanson: 7 Great Stories of Suspense in a House by the Sea

By Peter Swanson

Natalie Kikic on Croatian Folklore, Female Rage, and Writing a Gothic Novel

By Natalie Kikić

Matthew Gavin Frank on Kim Wall and the Ethics of Sensationalistic True Crime

By Matthew Gavin Frank

Paige Shelton on What Bones Can and Can't Reveal in Mysteries

By Paige Shelton

There's a "true crime concert documentary" about David Byrne

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads

Literary Hub

October 22, 2026

Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

By Richard Cooke

On Searching For Nabokov’s Rarest Paperbacks Across America

By Nina Chayka

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of 2026

By Emily Temple

Why Are So Many Contemporary Novelists Not Naming the Narrator?

By Ilana Bean

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