WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU DON’T LIKE SCARY MOVIES BUT YOUR FRIENDS’ “31 DAYS OF HORROR” POSTS ARE GIVING YOU FOMO
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...more“It was like wandering through my own labyrinth.”
...moreFrighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
...moreBeth Morgan discusses her debut novel, A TOUCH OF JEN.
...moreAuthor and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
...moreAlex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
...moreReading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
...more“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
...more“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
...moreWe get to devour our horror from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes.
...moreStephen Graham Jones discusses his new novel, THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS.
...moreJenny Hval discusses her new novel, GIRLS AGAINST GOD.
...moreOnce an area was designated, it was off limits.
...moreC. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
...moreChloe N. Clark discusses her debut story collection, COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES.
...more“I hope it will mean as much to readers as it does to me.”
...moreHelen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
...moreLilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
...moreFeet dangle in the foreground, suspended in space by distance and gravity.
...moreSteph Post discusses her new novel, MIRACULUM.
...moreEvery monster has a history with another monster.
...moreLooking back, it feels like I knew.
...moreThe narration isn’t dispassionate, but there’s a distance.
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses Her Body and Other Parties, riffing off the work of others, and how writing is like solving a math problem.
...moreI wanted to be scared because being terrified taught me how to survive.
...more“Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness.”
...moreDown the steps of the second-story apartment above the hearse garage and across the alley was the library.
...moreColin Winnette discusses his new novel, The Job of the Wasp, the nature of horror and his approach to writing it, and the fear at the heart of the book.
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses her debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, her favorite horror writers and movies, and writing the book(s) she’s always wanted to read.
...moreWomen’s bodies signify so much, both to ourselves and others, that inhabiting them and having ownership over them often feel like two different states of being.
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