Anatomies
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Chiaroscuro Syllabus
A reading list disguised as a course, or a course disguised as a reading list. Here’s what we’re taking apart, and why it’s always a…
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Why Dark Stories Stay With Us
Why do dark stories follow us out of the book? From Hill House to Hitchcock to Persephone, a look at longing, danger, and the thresholds…
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Anatomy of the Wolf
Wild freedom or fierce devotion? The alpha wolf myth, Norse and Roman wolves, imprinting, and four books with wolves in them: The Wolf Den, Wolf…
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Thrill of the Kill: True Crime Meets Horror Fiction
Riding around in the mind of a killer—or the one who got away. A visit to Salem’s Haunted Warren Museum, Dexter’s real-world copycats, The Housemaid,…
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Dead Souls: The Light Still Shines
For Día de los Muertos and All Souls: a ghost from my writers’ group, and three books that ask what a soul is worth—Soulless, Secondhand…
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The Anatomy of a Witch
Why do we keep making witches out of women? Three witches, three books and three relationships to power: Margarita, Diana Bishop and Maria Owens.