FROM THE SCREENING ROOM
Recently Watched
The beautiful, the terrifying, and the movies that had one brilliant idea before wandering into the woods without a flashlight.
FEMINIST HORROR
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY
A claustrophobic morgue, an unidentified woman, and a body that refuses to surrender its secrets. Slow-burning, atmospheric horror about silenced pain—and what happens when it finally becomes furious.
Read the Review →GHOST STORY
The Orphanage
2007 · GOTHIC SUPERNATURAL
Some ghost stories terrify. Others ache. This dark fairy tale about a grieving mother, a missing child, and an orphanage that remembers manages to do both.
Read the Review →POSSESSION HORROR
Traumatika
2024 · DEMONIC HORROR
A terrific premise involving childhood night terrors and a child-eating demon gets lost in uneven pacing, muddy storytelling, and violence without purpose. The idea deserved better.
Read the Review →KEEP WATCHING
More From the Screening Room
Missing children, homicidal clowns, small-town secrets, and the occasional supernatural somersault. You know—the usual.
SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY
Weapons
2025 · PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
A classroom of missing children, an off-kilter mystery, and a story that keeps zigging every time you think it will zag. Creeping dread, surprising humor, and one deeply unsettling woman.
Read the Review →BLOODY GOOD FUN
Clown in a Cornfield
2025 · COMEDIC SLASHER
A fading small town, generational warfare, one terrific final girl, and homicidal clowns pouring out of a cornfield. Smart without being smug, bloody without being bleak, and ridiculous in exactly the right way.
Read the Review →CURATED FOR THE DARK
Watchlists From the Crypt
For those nights when you want to be haunted but don’t want to spend forty-five minutes scrolling through your options.
AUTUMN READING LIST
Quick & Creepy
My Fall Horror Picks
Ghost stories, haunted houses, witches, grief, vengeance, and books made for candlelight reading while the wind rattles the windows.
Featuring Joe Hill, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Susan Hill, Darcy Coates, and more
Open the Reading List →SEASONAL HORROR ROUNDUP
Spooky Season
The Final Stretch
A final collection of creepy recommendations for squeezing every possible ghost, monster, and shadowy hallway out of spooky season.
Best enjoyed after dark with the doors locked
Enter the Collection →Light a candle, make something warm, and choose your haunting.
THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORYTELLER
Books That Made Me
The books that shaped my love of haunted houses, complicated monsters, dangerous women, gothic longing, twisted mysteries, and things that should have remained buried.
SHELF ONE
Blood, Monsters &
Beautiful Nightmares
Books of Blood
Clive Barker
Dracula
Bram Stoker
It
Stephen King
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
Weaveworld
Clive Barker
SHELF TWO
Witches, Magic &
the Supernatural
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
Stitches in Time
Barbara Michaels
The Iron Druid Chronicles
Kevin Hearne
The Witching Hour
Anne Rice
SHELF THREE
Dark Women &
Dangerous Minds
Carrie
Stephen King
Criminal
Karin Slaughter
Love You More
Lisa Gardner
The Perfect Husband
Lisa Gardner
SHELF FOUR
Gothic Souls &
Eternal Favorites
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Because before there were furious ghosts, there were complicated women, brooding men, enormous houses, family secrets, and terrible decisions made in candlelight.
Every writer is haunted by the books that came before her.
THESE ARE SOME OF MINE
