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The Horrors of a Starter Home

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Shirley Jackson

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The Horrors of a Starter Home

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Nine More Movies Where Real-Life Writers Take the Spotlight

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5 Cocktails and a Mocktail Inspired by Famous Literary Ghosts

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Dissecting The Dark Descent

Small, Sinister Details: Shirley Jackson’s “The Summer People”

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Five Beguiling Gateways Into Gothic Horror

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The Worst Car Trouble: Genevieve Valentine’s “Sooner Or Later Your Wife Will Drive Home”

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Five Haunting Tales About Love and Death

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Elizabeth Hand’s Next Novel Is Inspired by The Haunting of Hill House

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How to Paint With Words: 6 Descriptive Works of SFF

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City Ghosts, Country Ghosts: Seanan McGuire’s “In the Deep Woods; The Light is Different There”

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The Perils of Lockdown: Cassandra Khaw’s “Quiet Dead Things”

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Becoming the Thing That Haunts the House: Gothic Fiction and the Fear of Change

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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