Killer Performances: ’90s Horror Books ‘The Stalker’ and ‘Stage Fright’ [Buried in a Book]

The theater is no doubt a stressful place to work. From technical difficulties to difficult talent, no production is without its troubles. Yet sometimes more than a good show is at risk — lives are threatened. This installment of Buried in a Book shines a spotlight on the unexpected horrors lurking behind the curtains. Jahnna […]

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Carol Ellis Delivers Summer Camp Horror in 1993’s ‘Camp Fear’ [Buried in a Book]

According to the horror genre, summer camps are teeming with killers and other unusual dangers. These seasonal getaways designed for adventure and fun quickly turn into fights for survival. And it’s not just in the movies where a young camper’s sleeping bag doubles as their body bag; books also present camps as hotbeds of death, […]

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‘The Blair Witch Files’: Investigating the Growing Black Hills Mythology in Those First Three Novels

About a year after The Blair Witch Project took the box office by storm in 1999, Random House started publishing a series of tie-in novels in conjunction with Artisan Entertainment. The first film’s production designer and the director of two related features, Ben Rock, was also consulted about geography and lore. And to help reinforce the […]

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Love Is in the Scare: 10 Throwback Young Adult Horror Books Perfect for Valentine’s Day

Anyone who spent a great deal of their childhood reading them knows for a fact that there is no dearth of romance in the paperback young adult horrors of yesteryear. Unfortunately those brushes with young love left behind scars; they put these pulpy stories’ teenage characters in mortal danger. In their heyday, young adult horror […]

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