By Bretton Cadigan As a New Englander, I know three things: Boston sports are king, Dunkin’ Iced Coffee is a year-round beverage, and Spooky Season doesn’t end after Halloween. There’s no better way to while away the cold, dark three seasons of winter than to curl up with a scary Read more
By Kimberly Jackson It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are wealthy, and social fragmentation Read more
By Ember Richardson The news cycle is perpetually inundated with bad news wherever you look. Whether it’s daily CNN broadcasts, a local news station, or even your social media feeds, there always seems to be something terrible. As a reader, I turn to books to escape into other worlds, where Read more
By Kimberly Jackson There is a shadow of darkness, a looming presence that nips at the neck of progress and laughs at hope. Our terror, our fright, lives with us—or do we live with it? This is a question that sits at the very center of the Ethno-Gothic, a genre Read more
By: Zenia deHaven I’ll admit it: I have bought a book based on its cover before, and I will again. There are times when I don’t even read the book’s blurb and just shove that bad boy right into my basket because the cover has a cool dragon. I enjoy Read more