This Week in Short Fiction
As the story goes, nearly 100 years ago a group of Surrealist artists gathered together and put a new spin on an old parlor game called Consequences. The meeting resulted in their collective authorship...
View ArticleBaby Horror
Over at Vice, Julian Morgans gets a hold of Tim Jacobus, the guy behind R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series’ book covers. Their conversation touches on prog rock, horror’s allure, and the literary merit of...
View ArticleR.L. Stine’s Deep Dark Secret
In advanced of the release of the Goosebumps movie, NPR’s Colin Dwyer reveals that children’s author R.L. Stine originally hoped to write humor:“I started when I was 9. I don’t know, I was this weird...
View ArticleThe Vulnerability of Outsiders
Carmen Maria Machado reflects on her experience reading Lois Duncan’s novels in her youth, and explains why she continues to return to Duncan’s work to this day:Duncan has sometimes been grouped with...
View ArticleR.L. Stine Takes to Reddit and Tells All
90s kids probably remember Goosebumps, the popular series of children’s horror novellas that put kid protagonists in all manner of spooky situations. Author R.L. Stine took to Reddit for an AMA last...
View ArticleLooking for Russia in America
We’re on the corner of Neptune Ave and Ocean, heading around the train towards the boardwalk. It’s the end of April, and the trees are just growing back leaves, but the sky is still gray and...
View ArticleThe Final Girl
My father liked to scare. It was fun for him to hide behind doors, waiting patiently for the right moment to jump out and scare me or my little brother. He loved to scare other people, too, but he...
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