horror Archives - The American Scholar

Ghostland

By Stephanie Bastek | 10/17/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Colin Dickey’s history of America’s most haunted places

Darkness Illuminated

By Susan Cheever | 09/06/2016 |

A horror writer whose real demons were off the page

Thirteen for Halloween

By Michael Dirda | 10/28/2015 |

Or, how one book critic thinks he can out-spook the Scholar

Spooktacular Books

By Our Editors | 10/22/2015 |

Thirteen tales it would be monstrous of you to miss