Horror

BOI MELA 2024 / Trends in horror and graphic novels at this year’s Boi Mela

According to the publishers, the classic horror books are among their best selling novels this year.

FICTION / Screams and Schadenfreude

TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide, death, and gore.

FICTION / White-eyed Corpse

The beast bellowed below Mushfiq’s bedroom window, propelling rushes of tingles within him. He smiled.

ESSAY / On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?

The Screaming Shorts / Hunt

Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature.

The Screaming Shorts / Séance In The 70's

Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature

The Screaming Shorts / They came out at sunset

The deeper the night, the louder the sound.

The Screaming Shorts / Rapture

“Rapture’s coming, son. We best be happy when we embrace the Lord,” was all I heard him say as he pushed a needle into my arm.

The Screaming Shorts / Game

My mother took me on her horse and started to ride south. I clutched my bleeding arm, the pain snapping me fully awake.

February 23, 2024

Trends in horror and graphic novels at this year’s Boi Mela

According to the publishers, the classic horror books are among their best selling novels this year.

February 10, 2024

Screams and Schadenfreude

TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide, death, and gore.

January 10, 2024

White-eyed Corpse

The beast bellowed below Mushfiq’s bedroom window, propelling rushes of tingles within him. He smiled.

December 5, 2023

On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?

December 3, 2023