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Jess Kidd: ‘My older sister taught me to read with Mills & Boon’

The author on growing up with tales of swooning heroines, the thrill of Dylan Thomas and the genius of George Saunders

The Guardian - UK

Why less is more when crafting horror art

AngieHoffmeister reveals how she created the eerie art for The Folio Society's The Lottery and Other Dark Tales.

Creative Bloq

10 books culture editor Hannah Silver recommends this winter

Lacking inspiration over what to read next? Wallpaper* culture editor, Hannah Silver, shares her favourite books

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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – chilling tales for Halloween

There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

The Guardian - UK

From a scream to a whisper – ‘quiet horror’ novels are making a comeback

Ever since its inception with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), a delirious mixture of violent death and familial conspiracy, gothic literature has been a restless cultural form, constantly mutating and assuming new guises but always exploring the darker side of life. Sometimes, its fashions are those of…

The Conversation

The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – eerie and elegant gothic tales

This striking short story collection, set in a spooky hotel in the Fens, offers a fierce interrogation of women’s roles in the folk horror world

The Guardian - UK

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

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Shirley Jackson: celebrating 75 years of taut, ambiguous, disturbing stories

In June 1948, readers of The New Yorker magazine were confronted by one of the most disturbing short stories of the 20th century. The Lottery, written by a young writer named Shirley Jackson opens with a description of a deceptively idyllic rural community.

The Conversation

20 of the best supernatural books for splendid spooking

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

Evening Standard

Fallout: New Vegas director reveals the RPG's most twisted Vault was inspired by the Haunting of Hill House's author

Shirley Jackson's most controversial shortie is behind Vault 11

GamesRadar

After The Tarot Trailer, Horror Fans Are Upset About The Movie's Title Change

The upcoming horror movie Horrorscope has changed its title to the much more generic Tarot, and genre fans aren't pleased.

Cinemablend

Mike Flanagan Reveals What He Wanted Netflix's Haunting Season 3 To Be About, And I Think It Could Have Been The Best One

Mike Flanagan opened up about what Season 3 of Netflix's Haunting anthology would have covered after Hill House and Bly Manor.

Cinemablend

The book that haunts me – seven experts on the scariest thing they’ve ever read

A truly scary story never really leaves you. It lurks in long evening shadows, calls out through mysterious bumps in the night and blows down your neck whenever you feel a sudden shiver. With Halloween approaching, we asked six of our academic experts to tell us about the scariest book…

The Conversation

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

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The Haunting at 60: is it still one of the scariest films ever made?

Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg count the slow-burn 1963 horror as one of the greatest of all time but it wasn’t always seen as a classic

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 horror short stories

With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in

The Guardian - UK

Where I End by Sophie White review – intense mother-daughter horror

A grim secret lies at the heart of this brilliantly visceral novel set in a hostile and isolated community

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Portrait: Gloria of Greymouth

The creation diary of a most extraordinary dwelling

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The Independent UK

People are sharing short stories assigned in school that have ‘haunted’ them since: ‘Shivering 50 years later’

‘I literally think about short stories we had to read in high school REGULARLY’ tweeted one person

The Guardian - UK

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser review – frank and funny essays on doomed romances

This collection’s relentless focus on one person’s pursuit of intimacy invites us to redefine what a love story is

The Guardian - UK

Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published

Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the Strand

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 novels about inheritance

From Dickens and Du Maurier to Henry James and Shirley Jackson, where there’s a will, there are generally the makings of a great story …

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Poet Dean Atta, writer and critic PD Smith and Guardian readers Jessica and Brenda discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Newcastle Herald

Billions of reasons why the Hunter economy needs help in shaking its coal addiction

The Hunter Valley has 'real potential' to reinvent itself, but the region lacks a plan.

Newcastle Herald

The future of Hunter coal mining after the change to renewable energy

Experts warn that the Hunter's reliance on the coal mining industry is becoming increasingly risky as the pressure grows to slash greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals.

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