The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, is a slim collection of insightful short stories and essays by a writer at the beginning of a promising career—one cut short by tragedy when the author died in a car crash a few days after she graduated from Yale. Similarly, This Star Won’t Go Out is a posthumous collection […]
Fairies might not seem like the first choice when it comes to “most terrifying” creatures in speculative fiction, but consider: vampires and werewolves, while horrifying, are at heart human. Fairies are completely other. They’re the closest cousin the fantasy genre has to science fiction’s aliens: beings from another realm, whose minds and motives are incomprehensible. […]