What actually makes a story scary? From Stephen King and Jordan Peele to The Blair Witch Project, Final Destination and The Babadook, this anatomy of horror pulls fear apart to see how structure, psychology, anticipation and emotional stakes make it work.

Netflix’s Monster increasingly blurs the boundary between dramatisation and true crime fanfiction. But when real names, victims and unresolved histories are involved, how much creative freedom should writers actually have?

Bear wishes for Nikki to love him more than anyone else in the world. What if the horror of Obsession isn’t that the wish becomes corrupted—but that it gives him exactly what he asked for?