Mary Kay is a belly-dancer, horror enthusiast, sideshow lover, prose writer, Christian, and literature professor from south of Atlanta. Her true crime novel, America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster is available for pre-order, and you can hear her analysis (and jokes) about scary movies on the podcast she co-founded, Everything Trying to Kill You. She can be reached at mary.kay.mcbrayer@gmail.com.
Here are scary ghost stories for kids and adults that I think about on a regular basis when my apartment is too quiet. Read on to get your spook on.
Gender has so much and so little to do with identity that bending gender does change a story in one way or another. Consider these gender-bent retellings.
All vampires are alluring, but (sorry!) not all of them are compatible with you. This quiz determines your vampire soulmate.
There's something much scarier about knowing you're watching horror movies based on true stories and books. Here are the most terrifying to read and watch.
Laughter is a great way of tricking people into caring about personal tragedy. Here's my list of the Top 8 tragicomic memoirs that tricked me into caring by making me laugh.
No fake twang here: the narrators of these Southern audiobooks have excellent Southern accents.
Inevitably, each reader finds that at least one of these heartbreak poems resounds with them.
Here are some of the most impactful magical realism short stories, including short story collections and the best authors in the genre.
Not every book adapts well into an audiobook, but the odds are in our favor with voice actors like these. Here are some of the best audiobook narrations.
This list includes 50 must-read titles, including best books about music history, novels about music, & non fiction books about music & its creators.