7 YA Books to Read After Your The Haunting of Hill House Binge
Hello and welcome back to the light, friends. Across just ten episodes, Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House—part adaptation of…
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10 Fantasy Books to Pair with Your Favorite Halloween Movies
Your spine tingles. The floor creaks. Someone—something!—taps on the windowpane. There, on the chilled night air, a wolf sings out…
7 Dark New Reads to Bring in Autumn
Whether the leaves are turning where you are, and even if you can’t feel the any-day-now chill in the air,…
6 YA Books That’ll Make Brontë Fans Swoon
I suspect, dear reader, I’m not alone in having developed a soft spot for the Brontës early in my reading…
When Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors Are Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fans: A Study in Honor Edition
Sprinkled throughout this “first” novel by Claire O’Dell (anom de plume for fantasy author Beth Bernobich) are references to Watson’s…
Temper Is a Far-Out Adventure in Afrofuturism
Last year, Nicky Drayden’s debut novel The Prey of Gods blew the doors of science fiction and fantasy off their hinges, blending…
5 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Spoofs That Stand on Their Own
Reverence is 99 percent understanding and one percent irreverence. I might have just made up that axiom, but I stand…
A Study in Honor: A Very Different Holmes and Watson Story
As a character of canon, Sherlock Holmes is not typically one to dwell in realms of fantasy, preferring logic and…
Kill the Farm Boy Does What it Says on the Cover, Hilariously
Few books have fulfilled the promise of their title as quickly as Kill the Farm Boy, which sees its erstwhile…
7 Neil Gaiman Stories We Need to See on the Big Screen
The release of the movie—about the alluring danger of flirting with aliens—got us thinking: what other Gaiman shorts would be…
A Dangerous World Grows Darker in A Reaper at the Gates
The situation was grim from the start in the brutal Martial Empire Sabaa Tahir created in debut novel An Ember in…
With Legendary, the Magic of Caraval Breaks Free
The second book in a fantasy series can be a tricky, elusive thing. It’s the second novel that’s charged with…
8 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books the Biggest Forking Fans of The Good Place Will Love
Holy shirt, do we miss The Good Place. As we wait for the third season of this sitcom of screwball…
Fire Dance Expands the Borders of a Wondrous Fantasy World
When we last visited Ilana C. Myer’s gorgeous fantasy world of poetry, music, and magic, we weren’t sure when or…
8 YA Books to Read While You Wait for a New Season of The Good Place
We can’t forking believe how much we miss The Good Place now that its second season has come and gone.…
7 Complicated Sibling Bonds in Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Familiarity breeds contempt. It’s a truth borne out every vacation season by cross-country family road trips. But when it comes…
The Radical Element Gives the Spotlight to History’s Rebellious Girls
With the release of The Radical Element, her follow-up to the outstanding A Tyranny of Petticoats, Jessica Spotswood has just…
Josiah Bancroft on His Towering Year, and What to Expect from the Rest of the Books of Babel
Without a doubt, 2018 is the year of Josiah Bancroft’s twisting, spiraling, ever-climbing Books of Babel series. Originally a self-published…
10 Fantastical Towers We Wish We Could VIsit
Ready to book your next vacation and looking for something a little more exciting than simply soaking up some sea…
Impostor Syndrome Is a Fittingly Complicated End to a Game-Changing Urban Fantasy Series
In every way imaginable, Millicent Roper is a complicated protagonist. Over the course of the first two novels in Mishell…