Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels is about werewolves. Except it isn’t. Not really. It’s about being poor, being outcast, being hungry, being scared, being desperate for identity, being broken, being… Read more “A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones”
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Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned
Where do you go when you have no home? Wherever you are welcomed, naturally. Or supernaturally in the case of Ray Bradbury’s classic (redundant, I know) From the… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned”
Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson’s classic haunted house tale The Haunting of Hill House is one of the best executed examples of the genre anywhere in literature. The book’s pervading sense of dread… Read more “Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”
Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at… Read more “Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
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