The Anatomy of Horror: Dissecting Fear and Folklore
Fear Files is a curated collection of long-form articles that explore the many layers of horror. Here you’ll find literary horror pieces, cultural deep dives, and examinations of folklore, psychology, and fear itself. These articles go beyond the stories we tell to uncover their origins, themes, and impact — treating horror as art, history, and reflection. Each piece is crafted to reveal why certain tales haunt us, lingering long after the final word is read.
The Carpenter’s Son and the Dark Rise of Religious Horror
For decades, horror has lurked in the shadows of our collective fears, but few subgenres cut as deep as religious horror. In 2025, this ancient fear is being reborn on the big screen with The Carpenter’s Son, a mysterious new film already…
The Enduring Legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show — Why a New Documentary Has Fans Shivering with Antici…pation
When The Rocky Horror Picture Show first stumbled onto screens in 1975, no one could have predicted that this quirky, gender-bending musical would become one of the most enduring cult films of all time. While it leaned heavily into camp…
Why Two-Sentence Horror Stories Took Over the Internet — From Reddit to Everywhere
In the digital age, horror has found new ways to breathe in the cracks of our daily lives. No longer confined to Gothic tomes or campfire retellings, it now thrives in the spaces where our attention is shortest, our scrolling…
Dracula: Origins, Myth, and Centuries of Cultural Power
Few figures in literature and film have gripped the human imagination as powerfully as Dracula. Emerging from the shadows of Eastern European folklore and immortalized by Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula has become a symbol that transcends centuries, embodying not…
The Architecture of Fear: Why Haunted Houses Never Collapse
Horror, more than any other genre, thrives on return. The monster comes back after being slain, the curse revives after being broken, and the shadows stretch once more across the familiar hallway. Its stories are cyclical, repeating themselves with new…