Like all the season openers and closers of The X-Files, “Talitha Cumi” explores the show’s central mythology about the government conspiracy surrounding aliens and UFOs. The case that Agent Mulder ...

In one of the lesser-known but truly scary parts of Bram Stoker’s classic book Dracula, we hear reports of a woman stalking the night and attacking children. They call her the “Bloofer Lady.” It turns ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. This essay is the introduction to Chocky by John Wyndham. The new edition is out now from NYRB ...

Self-aware horror set across four time periods sees a woman impregnated by a human-sized pond-beast resulting in multigenerational havoc There is a long discredited theory known as “ontogeny ...

There's a smart simplicity to the title Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant. Out the gate, you know the premise of this body-horror ...

Like everything else in the modern landscape, Alien exists not only on the big screen but in comics, video games, toys, and even television. Despite the movies largely keeping xenomorphs defined by ...

Stephen King has never shied away from talking about how much he dislikes Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, King’s novel about a writer possessed by malevolent forces at an isolated hotel ...

A former Massachusetts shelter director-turned-whistleblower is calling the sentencing of yet another illegal alien for raping a child at a taxpayer-funded shelter further evidence of a “total ...