Just in time for Mother’s Day, or maybe early for Halloween, it’s just flat-out time to get extremely spooky, so we’re bringing you the PG-est horror out there, slithering like a fat white worm and jutting upsettingly from a long-dug grave, Eric Morse’s epoch-defining Friday the 13th: Mother’s Day. Grab your backpack and get ready […]

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A book that will leave you sleepy, but a podcast episode that will leave you … in stitches, it’s Robin Cook’s quasi-classic Coma, a medical thriller more frightening than anything except a hospital bill. A thick slice of 70s anxiety, where women in the workplace crash up against the commodification of, uh, organ “donations” and […]

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