Zombies: The History and Literature of Reanimated Corpses

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

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

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

Discover 10 books that will make you think, all recommended by bestselling authors.

Scared of Things That Go Bump in the Night?

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: Order of Books

Is there a recommendation of which L. Ron Hubbard fiction book to begin with? Is there a recommended order of books to read?

The Backstory to Robert Bloch’s “Psycho”

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.

What Inspired Stephen King to Write “Pet Sematary”

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.”

The Making of “Fear”

Originally published in July 1940, L. Ron Hubbard’s immortal Fear has riveted readers for 75 years and will continue to do so in the years and decades to come.

Zombies—Fact or Fiction?

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

FEAR’s 75th Anniversary

Seventy-five years after its 1940 publication, Fear by L. Ron Hubbard remains one of the foundations of the contemporary horror genre, widely influential and powerfully effective.