The woods are dark. I think we feel this on an elemental level, probably some genetic hangover from tens of thousands of years of our ancestors making their ways through inhospitable and unknown forests and jungles. Part of us yearns for nature of course, needs it to mentally and spiritually thrive, and maybe that just […]
One of the functions fictions perform for us is broadening our understanding of other people. Novels that work as character studies are particularly adept at encouraging our sense of empathy. The following novels put us directly (or only a little indirectly) into the minds of broken, cruel, or psychopathic characters, all of whom have one […]
Horror and comedy can make for pleasant bedfellows for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. It may have something to do with our customary reactions to surprise. Jokes, witticisms, even prank-falls and slapstick all depend on an element of shock. A character uses the wrong word or behaves in a way wildly inappropriate for a given […]
Visit these ten creepy haunted house novels for housebound horror and architectural evils.
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