The Missiles Are Flying! HOWLS member Franklin Phillips gives us a list of 4 books highlighting the horror of a nuclear war.

Scary vampires are alive -- er, unalive -- and well, terrifying readers just like great-granddaddy of horror fiction Bram Stoker used to. HOWL Society member @Amber gives us a list of vampire books, of the non-sparkly variety, for your To Be Read list. Our book club will be reading one of these for our first book of the spookiest month, October! Join our Discord to be part of the club. "I’m gonna be real honest with you all. I just saw My Chemical Romance in Chicago. Vampires are simply on the brain right now." …

Alt: a clip from The Dark Crystal where a monstrous character says you must 'Make Your Choice'

Rachel Harrison is outright horror literature royalty. Her brand of horror, which some call cozy, or feminist, or fun, or relatable -- however you classify it, she definitely has her own brand. She may touch on relatable characters found in fun summer reads featured on Reese Witherspoon's book club, but as a horror author, she is not afraid to go there: the gory, the uncomfortable, the bloody, the miserable, the shocking. She has written about werewolves (SUCH SHARP TEETH), vampires (SO THIRSTY) and witches (CACKLE…

One thing you have to know about Christopher O’Halloran, author of the upcoming debut novel Pushing Daisy, is that he is a good guy. Not just a nice guy; he’s a thoughtful, affable pers…

Pedro Iniquez has been in the atmosphere, writing for 16 years, and has truly landed this year—2025. He has two collections of stories: one horror (Fever Dream of a Parasite) and one sci-fi (Echos …

“I have always thought the world sat at an odd angle, so the [horror] genre suits me.” L. Marie Wood, a finalist for the Stoke Award for Superior Achievement. in Poetry for her book Imi…

13 Questions with Lee Murray Lee Murray is an accomplished poet, author, editor, and essayist. HOWL Society is honored to feature her in celebration of National Poetry Month. She is one of five 202…

It's April, and this month, like every month, we delight in literary horrors large and small. Prancing through flowers freshly blooming in graveyards; dancing in the rain that falls on our black parade. Here are the 4 freshly terrifying books we're reading this month! April 6: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo is our first book of the month, by famed Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Recently adapted for the screen, this book follows a man to a haunted village to find his father. It is a classic of Mexican literature.

Cynthia Gómez’s debut book The Nightmare Box and Other Stories is a love letter to her home, Oakland. When we were looking for authors to feature for Women in Horror Month, hers was the first…