Jacquie Walters' debut, 'Dearest,' is a horror novel about new motherhood, including the demands of a breastfeeding infant, as well as how postpartum hormones affect a woman's psyche. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-09-16 10:00:29 UTC ]
The author and podcaster on young love, chips and curry sauce, and her husband’s selective hearingBorn in Essex, Giovanna Fletcher, 39, studied at drama school. She made her fiction debut in 2013 with Billy and Me, writes young adult fiction with her husband, musician Tom Fletcher, and in 2017... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-02-10 09:30:38 UTC ]
The ghost story is one of the most vibrant modes in U.S. American literature today. But why are ghost stories still relevant? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-10-26 10:35:00 UTC ]
The proprietor’s name is Amy (except that, of course, it isn’t). She’s a kind, petite woman in her forties, the owner of a ghost-themed bookstore in a small southern city. I won’t tell you which city. It’s for your own safety. This is, after all, a ghost story. And most importantly: it’s true.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-31 08:57:03 UTC ]
Shelley spent nine months by Lake Geneva writing the story of the bringing to life of a monster Percy Shelley’s correction of Mary Shelley’s misspelling of “igmmatic” in the notebooks in which she scrawled the story of Frankenstein – “enigmatic o you pretty Pecksie!” he wrote – will be seen in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Associate editor John Maher tells a ghost story and recommends Matthew Rohrer's otherworldly Russian nesting doll of a novel in verse, 'The Others.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]