The short story is back. Well, kind of. They’ve always been here, featured in literary magazines and published in best-selling collections by the few lucky authors prestigious enough to sell them. But ...

So, with Halloween on the horizon, I gathered up what I find to be the 20 most frightening short stories in King’s entire output, from early tales to recent releases. I tried to avoid longer pieces ...

In another recent Halloween-themed post here, I discussed the psychology behind the nature of ghost stories and, to a degree, horror stories more generally. In response to a comment about what I ...