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Cover of This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara.

Excerpts

This Monster of Mine

Read an Excerpt From This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara

By Shalini Abeysekara

June 11, 2026

Cover of Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots.

Books

book reviews

Super Feelings and Spreadsheets: Villain by Natalie Zina Walshots

By Vanessa Armstrong

June 11, 2026

detail from the cover of The Knife by R.L. Stine

Books

Teen Horror Time Machine

Killer Jobs: The Knife and The Waitress

By Alissa Burger

June 11, 2026

detail from the cover of The Book Censor's Library by Bothanyna Al-Essa

Books

Found in Translation

Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library

By Hache Pueyo

June 11, 2026

Cover of John DeChancie's Paradox Alley (Art by James Gurney)

Books

reading recommendations

Safer Driving Through Science Fiction

By James Davis Nicoll

June 11, 2026

Cover of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen.

Excerpts

cozy fantasy

Read an Excerpt From The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen

By Chiara Bullen

June 10, 2026

Cover of The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen.

Books

book reviews

Light Work For A Starship: Mike Chen’s The Photonic Effect

By Sasha Bonkowsky

June 10, 2026

detail from the cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Books

Reading the Weird

Smoke and Mirrors: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 9)

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 10, 2026

Bruce Campbell as an older Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep

Books

reading recommendations

Five Horror Books Featuring Older Protagonists

By Lorna Wallace

June 10, 2026

detail from the cover of The Summoning of Tess Pham by Trang Thanh Tran

Books

cover reveals

Read the First Chapter of The Summoning of Tess Pham by Trang Thanh Tran

By Reactor

June 10, 2026

Cover of Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden.

Excerpts

Horror

Read an Excerpt From Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden

By Christopher Golden

June 9, 2026

Cover of An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock.

Books

book reviews

Coming Home to Roost: Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows

By Molly Templeton

June 9, 2026

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“We are all stardust and stories.”

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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