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    May 02, 2024 3 minutes

    HORROR IS BACK!

    In the 1970s and 80s horror fiction was huge, the genre dominated by bestselling titles by Stephen King and James Herbert, writes Gary Dalkin.

    Shelves were filled with books by Ramsey Campbell, Shaun Hutson, Brian Lumley, Mark Morris, Stephen Laws and many others. Writer and director Clive Barker was cited as the future of horror. And then the boom ended, with many bookshops no longer having a dedicated horror section, what remained of the genre dividing between small independent imprintscoming to dominate.

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