Top Ten Books About Actors By: Elly Griffiths What would you be if you weren’t a writer? I’m often asked this question and I always reply, rather smugly, that I’ve always wanted to write and completed my first book (still sadly unpublished) when I was eleven. But the truth is that I did have another […]

Poe’s Horror Trumps His Mystery By Jeffrey B. Burton I ordered a collection of horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe through Scholastic Books in fifth grade. Scholastic promised the tales of terror would scare the bejesus out of me. Unfortunately, I was too young for Poe at the time; however, later in junior high, I […]

On Friendship as a Source of Intrigue in Fiction By: Alanna Schubach One of the more intriguing aspects of making a new friend, as a child, was going to their house for the first time. I remember it as a revelatory experience: finally I would see what had been hidden during our interactions in the […]