11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time
Martin Scorsese is one of the most celebrated and influential directors in cinema history. He won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2007, for The Departed.
Just in time for Halloween and exclusively for The Daily Beast, the man who brought you Taxi Driver and The Departed shares his favorite horror movies of all time. Plus, watch clips of the scariest scenes.
With a million units sold on its first day, the Da Vinci Code author's new book is off to a predictably impressive start-much to a few critics' chagrin.
Thriller Night
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
As summer recedes, booksellers are awash in white-knuckled tales of suspense. From Joseph Finder's "private spy" story to the conclusion of Robert Ferrigno's Assassin trilogy, here are the best.
Thriller Lovers' Guilty Pleasure
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Critics say Janet Evanovich's novels are low-brow, formulaic chick lit with a lurid crime twist, not worth a second glance. So why can't I stop reading them?
A Hero for Klutzes
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Gregg Hurwitz is the best thriller writer you've never heard of, and the protagonist of his new novel, Trust No One, is one rarely seen: a consummate everyman who bungles, misfires and flubs.
A Romance Writer's Dark Turn
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Lisa Gardner used to write Fabio-esque romance novels. But her new book, The Neighbor, rubs elbows with murderers, sex offenders, and child abusers. What happens when a fairytale spinner gets nasty?
Freaked out by climate change and the global financial meltdown? Well, here's something even scarier: the bleak future painted by Daniel Suarez in his fascinating book Daemon. A big threat to our societal and individual well-being is the...
Diego Rodriguez is a partner at the design and innovation firm IDEO. He is also a consulting professor at Stanford's d.school, where he teaches classes about viral marketing and entrepreneurship. His blog metacool has a passionate following among people who spend their lives trying to make a dent in the universe.
5 Hot Summer Thrillers
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Depraved serial killers, hard-bitten cops, sleuthing journalists, and femme fatales-read our roundup of the can't-put-down thrillers that will keep you on the beach well past sunset.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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