The Wicked Deep

Secrets, secrets are no fun, except when they’re consuming a small town you yourself are nowhere near. Spooky stories take place anywhere and everywhere, but they’re almost never better than when set amid the everybody-thinks-they-know-everybody atmosphere of some tiny speck on a map, whether it’s haunted by terrors of this world or the next. Eight […]

​I don’t have the attention span for series. There are so many books to read that keeping up with a three- or six- or ten-book series is just too much work. That’s why I love standalone fantasy novels: gorgeously written, well-contained stories that often join the ranks of my favorite books, like last year’s An […]

School’s not out for summer just yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start dreaming about those life-changing (or, at the very least, loungey) days already. These eight YA reads about summers that shake things up are all you need to countdown to your own stellar summer adventure–whether you’ll be scooping ice cream or solving […]

The horror and suspense genres provide us with a running list of creatures, supernatural beings, evil humans, demons, and more to give us the frights, but my personal favorite “leave the night light on” trope is Don’t Go in the Water. Whether the source of terror is in the water or the water itself, I’m […]