While it’s impossible to read all of the thousands of books that are released each year, it’s almost as impossible to make sure that all the good ones (or even the intriguing ones) get the attention they deserve, even though there are lots of people working behind the scenes in publishing to get books in front […]
Serial killers are disproportionately common in fiction (well, we hope, anyway). There’s just something darkly fascinating about human beings who so completely slip the bonds of civilization—aand that fascination occasionally inspires an author to come up with a killer so deranged, the violence becomes something like poetry. The list of bizarre serial killers is long […]
J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison is the author of the humorous fantasy adventure Fish Wielder and, more recently, Demon Freaks, a spoof about the horrors of monsters in the woods and the SATs. Today, he joins us to talk about everyone’s favorite holiday villain, the Krampus—and 11 other baddies who make him look friendlier than St. Nick. […]