“When you’re writing a children’s book, it shares much relation with horror, because it has to be usually very immediate and very visceral and gripping. Because otherwise the kids are gonna get bored. And your window of opportunity to grab the reader is … longer with horror, you can do the slow creeping dread better, […]
So. You’ve just finished bingeing Season 4 of Stranger Things. You’ve finally finished crying over the finale (you think) and have no idea what to do with yourself during the grueling wait for Season 5. That’s where we come in with a list of books to satisfy that supernatural craving. Hopper Recommends Joyce Recommends Other […]
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. […]
Gothic novels come in many flavors, ranging from the classics, like Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, that helped pave the way to some of my favorites, and newer works, like Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, that perfectly fit the bill. But my favorites all share the same things: creepy houses, mysterious relatives, unexplained ailments/physical deformities, and always a twisty secret. […]
