There is a style used for writing horror stories that works supremely well, something I would simply call casual. It is a laid-back, natural, simple style that suggests a normal world filled with casual, non-intrusive, non-dramatic events until... Until the horrible thing happens, which often,...

A cold case turns into a massive investigation when Christine Lynch begins to dig into the facts in Screams in the Woods by Michael R. Martin. The two men who are missing were investigating the mystery of a mine explosion over 100 years earlier that...