By Bretton Cadigan Choo-choo-choose this novel for your next horror read! Linwood Barclay’s Whistle falls into the popular horror concept of casting everyday objects as malevolent forces of evil. Like its horror predecessors Christine, Child’s Play (aka the Chucky series), or Heart-Shaped Box, Whistle makes the banal ballistic, as it Read more
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 Nick Mendillo I met Tim Weed while I was a student enrolled in the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University. He was a professor, resident author, and my mentor for a semester. Throughout his lectures, our Zoom meetings, and our general conversations about writing over the course of the Read more
By Marielle Seche Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Abuse “KATABASIS, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.” R. F. Kuang’s latest book, Katabasis, is a dark academia fantasy novel that follows two Cambridge graduate students of magick: Alice Law and Peter Murdoch. They use their Read more