October’s here, which means it’s time for us to read the books that leave shivers running down our spines and keep us reminding ourselves over and over that we did, in fact, lock the doors and no, there definitely isn’t anyone else in the house with us. If you were wondering what horror books our […]
The author of “The Last American Vampire” on fear, historians, and what we don’t know about Hollywood.
There’s finally a chill in the air; dead leaves are deserting their branches, and the undead have come out to play. Haunted houses are popping up in abandoned Burger Kings everywhere, and they’re charging egregious sums (like firstborn children or kidneys) for tours. If, like me, you have trouble crossing the threshold of these so-called […]
Halloween is upon us again, and that means three things: one, we all get to dress up in costumes and pretend to be something else for a little while; two, all the candy we can eat before going into some sort of sugar-shock coma; and three, scary stories. Scary is a moving target, of course. […]
Have you been by the old Mercer house? The one surrounded by all the bushes and dead trees? Yeah, I thought it was abandoned, too, but sometimes at night you can see a light go on upstairs. My older sister’s best friend’s boyfriend disappeared there one night on a full moon. He was dared by […]