Once upon a time, fairy tales were not just for children. Before the Victorians and Disney sanitized them for younger audiences, they were often dark, raunchy and bloodthirsty. Most fairy tales spring from ancient oral traditions; some may even date…
Stephen King is one of the world’s most prolific writers. He has written over eighty novels and shows no sign of slowing down. Born in Maine in 1947, many attribute his fascination with the horror genre to a tragic incident…
Stories of reanimated corpses have circulated for centuries, but it wasn’t until George Romero’s classic 1968 film Night of the Living Dead that zombies became a staple of horror fiction. Horror tropes play on our most primordial fears, so it’s…
Crescent City (House of Earth and Blood) is a sucker-punch of a fantasy novel. I loved the book for the murder mystery and the slow-burn romance between Bryce and Hunt. Sarah J. Maas is the queen of witty banter and…
Madeline Miller has made a name for herself by taking beloved Greek myths and shaking them up. She did it first with The Song of Achilles, her tender and surprisingly controversial romance between Patroclus and Achilles, the star of Homer’s…
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes.” This opening line of Uprooted sets the tone for Naomi Novik’s self-aware fantasy where the Dragon is actually a wizard and the Enchanted Wood is a living nightmare. The fairy tale’s heroine,…
Dangerous, salacious, and blood soaked – vampire stories never go out of fashion. No matter the era, vampires exude style and draw readers in with that distinctive, enticing push and pull between the grotesque and the arousing. What are some…