Nicole Hill
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Austin, TX, United States
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Revelator Captures the Horror of Men, Monsters, and the Women Caught In Between
Daryl Gregory's unnerving Southern Gothic novel Revelator is a beautiful, disquieting work of folk horror about the evil that men do. → Read More
Mariana Enriquez's Stories Echo with the Shrieks of Women
In her short stories, Mariana Enriquez acts as a doula for the grotesque and ghoulish, ushering into the world visions of horrors enacted upon and by women. → Read More
Horror for the Holidays: The Best Gifts for Horror Readers 2020
If you need the perfect gift for the horror reader in your life, these 14 2020 horror books will guarantee you champion gift-giver status. → Read More
6 Free Classic Horror Books to Read on Project Gutenberg
Books for the budget-conscious–read these six horror classics for free right now, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. → Read More
What to Read Next Based on Your Favorite Stephen King Novel
Once you've leveled up in Stephen King's indelible horror fiction backlist, expand your horizons with these readalikes based on your favorite King novel! → Read More
6 Horror Short Stories That Haunt Us
Scary things come in small packages. Some of the most frightening horror we’ve ever read has come in the form of short stories - here are six we can't shake. → Read More
5 Books About the Horror of the Unreliable Narrator
If you revel in the uncertainty of a story told by an unreliable narrator, here are five horror books for your next reading journey. → Read More
Shirley Provides a Window Into Jackson's Own Haunted House
Meditations on lost girls, small towns, & female intimacy in Shirley, a fictionalized movie of Shirley Jackson's life, on Hulu. Read our full review. → Read More
5 Funny Horror Books to Lift Your Mood
What could be better for our current moment than stories that recognizes the absurdity of awfulness? Here are five picks for horror books as funny as they are scary. → Read More
6 Fantasy Books in Which Real Cities Are Imbued with New Magic
Every book's got a setting, and every book’s got a cast of characters. Some books, though—some books have a setting that is a character: a living, breathing part of the story that makes you care and invest deeply in it. In the case of fantasy, often this means creating a location—a world—from the → Read More
5 Gonzo Apocalypses to Make You Feel Better About Your Week
It is the year 2085 in the corporate and environmental wasteland that was once the United States of America. All 50 states have seceded from the Union. Lawlessness is the law of he land, and the fate of what’s left of humanity rests on the shoulders of a young factory worker named Truckee Wallace an → Read More
7 Fascinating Stories of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Twins
There is a lot going on in Seanan McGuire’s latest genre-blending, mind-bending novel Middlegame, most of it centered on two special, if not entirely unique, twins: Roger and Dodger. Roger and Dodger (whose names rhyme for a reason, I swear) are initially the unwitting pawns in a century-spanning → Read More
7 Darkly Funny Fantasy Novels
If you’ve yet to meet Sal the Cacophony, you’re in for a treat. The anti-hero star of Seven Blades in Black, the doorstopping start to Sam Sykes’s The → Read More
How to Survive a Trip into the Woods: Key Lessons From Fantasy Books
Perhaps you like to camp, or long hikes, or to retreat into the wilderness to find peace and serenity. I’m told it is not uncommon—though, I, being a lifelong reader, would never dare. Why, you ask? Because dreadful things happen when you go into the woods—or so my steady diet of fantasy fiction has → Read More
5 Fascinating Uses of Footnotes in Fantasy
The first befootnoted page of The Ruin of Kings, by Jenn Lyons Footnotes in fiction are a tricky business. Handled poorly, they can be the bane of a reader’s → Read More
7 YA Books to Read After Your The Haunting of Hill House Binge
Hello and welcome back to the light, friends. Across just ten episodes, Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House—part adaptation of and part homage to the Shirley Jackson novel—proves itself to be creepy, compelling horror that is endlessly watchable, even if you’re watching through your fingers. If you → Read More
5 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Spoofs That Stand on Their Own
Reverence is 99 percent understanding and one percent irreverence. I might have just made up that axiom, but I stand by the math nonetheless. Regardless, few → Read More
8 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books the Biggest Forking Fans of The Good Place Will Love
Holy shirt, do we miss The Good Place. As we wait for the third season of this sitcom of screwball antics in the afterlife, we’re itching to find sci-fi and fantasy readalikes offering the same blend of goofy and earnestness that makes Michael’s neighborhood the only spot to spend eternity. While → Read More
Josiah Bancroft on His Towering Year, and What to Expect from the Rest of the Books of Babel
Without a doubt, 2018 is the year of Josiah Bancroft's twisting, spiraling, ever-climbing Books of Babel series. Originally a self-published work, Senlin Ascends → Read More
6 Robots Too Smart for Their Own Good
Robots, man. You can’t live without them (unless you vacuum the old-fashioned way), and quite often, you can’t live with them—at least, not without massive, → Read More