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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...

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Baby 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...

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R.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...

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The 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...

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R.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...

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Looking 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...

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The 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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