Horror maven Barker digs up Edgar Allan Poe
450276
Horror master Clive  Barker is developing a young-adult thriller centered on the  ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.
491570
A top forensic expert tells Wired News what he's learning from the decomposing bodies he keeps at a Tennessee research facility. Also, a bonus preview of Harry Houdini's exhumation.
299314
U.S. author and illustrator Maurice   Sendak stomps his feet at being branded a monster writer --   even though his latest work, a pop-up book called "Mommy?,"   overflows with hordes of fearsome creatures.
681441
Travel: Ian J Griffiths finds himself hooked on the macabre on a fascinating trip on the trail of Peru's ancient dead.
480021
The world's greatest detective takes on the ultimate incarnation of cosmic madness through video games and literature. In Table of Malcontents.
629433
In a short story called âMouse,â part of Michel Faberâs poignantly eerie new collection, âVanilla Bright Like Eminem,â he writes of a myopic video-gamer named Manny and the strange little world he inhabits.
202877
In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Arthur Rimbaud. They called him a bard, a shaman and a master of "art as revenge."
690226
Stephen Kingâs use of horror is not what it used to be. It may still be the impetus for his stories, but it is no longer the foremost reason theyâre interesting.
52087
Harley Granville Barker's play, in a canny new adaptation by David Mamet, has received a crisply acted, largely engrossing revival at the Atlantic Theater Company.
63461
âTerminus,â Mark OâRoweâs drama of interlocking monologues, adds an unusual twist to the playwrightâs already distinctive style: rhyme.
714445
In Matt Cashner's second article on POE, he describes how to fit together POE's components into event-driven applications.
354423
Mary Gordon, author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, has won the third annual Story Prize for short fiction. Gordon will receive $20,000 for "The Stories of Mary Gordon," prize organizers announced Wednesday.
653956
Bitten by a zombie, his fate sealed, a character in George Romero's new film mutters to a friend, "Shoot me." The friend first points a video camera at the man, then a gun.
739929
LOS ANGELES  - Detective Michael Raines sees dead people, which, you're probably thinking, isn't that much of a gimmick on TV these days. Dead people have been ratting out criminals to Allison Dubois on "Medium" for a few years, and Melinda Gordon of "Ghost Whisperer" also has weekly conversations with spooks.
694745
Slam poetry got a fresh twist when three Victorian-era re-enactors read from such poets as William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson in a setting that was fitting for the event &#151; a 19th-century stone mansion.
705744
Horrormeister Clive  Barker often ponders how movies and novels require their  creator to choose one path out of numerous possibilities.
268426
Indeed, the allegations against Hamilton are a monstrosity, a horror-inspired recite that could have been whipped up by Mary Shelley herself.