10 Revealing Reasons Readers Like to Read Scary Books

10 Revealing Reasons Readers Like to Read Scary Books

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Good horror novels engage readers in ways few other genres can. Have a look at ten revealing reasons why people are drawn to horror and scary books, each backed by an example from notable novels.
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard

The Making of Fear—a Horror Book

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Originally published in July 1940, L. Ron Hubbardʼs immortal horror novel, Fear, turned the genre to the direction it goes today—one in which the horror is based on everyday realism and could conceivably happen to anyone.
Zombie Reading

Zombies: The History and Literature of Reanimated Corpses

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Reanimated corpses stagger through movies, haunt us in October, creep onto our reading list, and slither into our nightmares. Who are they?
CBS War Correspondent Bill Downs

A War Correspondent Bleeds Ink, not Blood. Most of the Time.

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What makes a war correspondent risk his or her life to report the truth about wars? What is their mission and why do we need outsiders to look at the battlefield from the inside?
Books That Make You Think

Books That Make You Think

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Discover 10 books that will make you think, all recommended by bestselling authors.
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Scared of Things That Go Bump in the Night?

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People fear what they don’t know or don’t understand and that includes things that go bump in the night. Read on to find out if fear is the mind killer or not.
L. Ron Hubbard fiction books on table

L. Ron Hubbard Fiction: Order of Books

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Is there a recommendation of which L. Ron Hubbard fiction book to begin with? Is there a recommended order of books to read?
Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Psycho

The Backstory to Robert Bloch’s “Psycho”

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The next article in our series entitled “What Was the Author Thinking” spotlights the master of the macabre Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. The novel originally published in 1959 and the basis of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie is considered a classic in the genre.
Cat in a cemetary

What Inspired Stephen King to Write “Pet Sematary”

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Do you ever wonder how Stephen King comes up with the ideas for his novel? In this blog you find the real-life incidents that inspired "Pet Sematary."
Skip Harris, Phil Proctor and Bobb Lynes in Dead Men Kill

Zombies—Fact or Fiction?

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Are zombies real? And what separates the facts from the fiction? Here are the facts from Hollywood to Haiti and in literature on zombies.