Ryan Benk
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Horror writer Stephen Graham Jones says horror's current moment is powered by more than just fear.
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NPR's Mallory Yu, Ryan Benk and Joel Rose discuss how queer themes and characters have long found a home in horror films.
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Scary stories are more than fun, they're big business.
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Listeners of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday may already know that host Ayesha Rascoe loves horror. But why do scream queens (and kings) like her like what's frightening? The answer may surprise you.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to actor Will Poulter about his role in "Union County," a new film about the opioid epidemic in Ohio.
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Sony's Playstation games once ran solely on discs. But with advances in technology, physical discs are unnecessary, and the company will soon stop making them.
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Prof. Ajay Narendra from Macquarie University in Australia tells NPR about his team's discovery of a particularly rare, and high-powered, hunting method of the informally named "ballista spider."
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Robert A. Winn about the progress the United States has made in treating cancer.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks American Academy of Physician Associates President Todd Pickard about a lawsuit seeking more generous caps on student loans for PA and nursing programs.
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On this week's Cineplexity, we explore what movies about immigrants teach us about life in America. What movies get the story right? What do they get wrong? And what stories are left untold?