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The Top Ten Tales You Need to Read this Halloween

The Top Ten Tales You Need to Read this Halloween   I live in Salem, Massachusetts, so I’m pretty hard to frighten. As Salemites, we live within our dark history, developing a kind of generational guilt that reminds us daily of what fear can do. But there is also a theme park element to this […]

INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS KAPLAN-MAXFIELD

INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS KAPLAN-MAXFIELD

INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS KAPLAN-MAXFIELD (We are proud to present this exclusive interview with Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield.) Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield is a Professor of English at Boston College, where he teaches detective fiction, science fiction, gothic fiction, and creative nonfiction writing. A beloved professor, he is in the process of writing the third novel of An Adventure on […]

No Book Is An Island (But Some Good Ones Are Set On Them). Features a small stack of books in different colors sitting on a wood tabletop. The background is a wooden wall colored with blue chipped paint.

Setting and Family Stories by Emily Critchley

  Setting and Family Stories by Emily Critchley   I’ve never lived in North Lincolnshire, but I’ve visited often, and it’s always been very present in my imagination. Having listened to the memories of my mother’s childhood and the stories of my grandparents, it felt natural for me to use the place where my mother, […]