Thus, I often find short narrative forms much scarier, hence the focus of this list is on short-horror tales. The other caveat to this list is the relative recency of the tales. Horror succeeds in ...

If you’re looking for something scary but not too long, there are some great horror shorts to see. I love horror. Anyone who knows me knows that at this point. I love the best horror movies out there, ...

There definitely is an art to writing short stories, and even more so for short-short stories. As the following tales prove, sometimes it doesn’t take more than two lines for us to never sleep again.

So, with Halloween on the horizon, I gathered up what I find to be the 20 most frightening short stories in King’s entire output, from early tales to recent releases. I tried to avoid longer pieces ...

The horror icon returns with Mimi’s Tales of Terror, featuring nine creepy stories pulled from urban legends. The horror icon returns with Mimi’s Tales of Terror, featuring nine creepy stories pulled ...

Like any anthology, horror or otherwise, the V/H/S series has its hits and misses. Released in 2012, the first V/H/S had a simple concept: an all-star lineup of horror directors (including Joe ...

In an intriguing mash-up of genre conventions and themes, Phobia Interactive's A Short Tale of Solitude looks ready to challenge all sorts of preconceptions when it's released early next year.

From the grief-ridden The Babadook to the hauntingly atmospheric Let the Right One In, these films prove that the horror genre can be utterly sad.

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...