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Folk Horror on Film

Seventeen movies with sinister pagan festivals, cultish locals, and witchy witches for you to watch through your fingers, this Halloween season.
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All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

Featuring folk horror, body horror, vampires, demons, literal hellscapes, and lots of haunted houses
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

Featuring first books from Matthew Aldrich, Nneoma Ike-Njoku, Desirée de Fez, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, and Sophia Huneycutt

Westminster Abbey's Roman sarcophagus mystery remains have been identified!

By Olivia Rutigliano

Riley Sager and Tom Ryan on coincidentally writing thrillers with the same premise

By Tom Ryan

Noah Segan discusses his new film, 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York'

By Radha Vatsal

The Best Psychological Thrillers of the Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

What should you watch this weekend?

By Dwyer Murphy

On wellness culture, horror fiction, and shifting the blame

By Dawn Kurtagich

Folk Horror on Film

By Olivia Rutigliano

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas: Essential Holiday Horror Reading

By Kevin Johnson

Anna Maloney on Writing Badass, Believable Older Women in Thrillers

By Anna Maloney

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Zelly Ruskin on Gaslighting, Relationships, and Psychological Suspense

By Zelly Ruskin

All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

By Molly Odintz

Olivia Blacke's Favorite Halloween-Themed Reads (Plus a Haunted Bookstore Tour)

By Olivia Blacke

Harry Hunsicker on Transforming Grief into Conflict in Crime Fiction

By Harry Hunsicker

The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle's Detective

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Peter Swanson: 7 Great Stories of Suspense in a House by the Sea

By Peter Swanson

Literary Hub

October 23, 2026

How to Find the Perfect Writing Soundtrack

By Marissa Levien

Why Wikipedia is a Wonder of the Modern World—That We’ll Never See the Likes of Again

By Richard Cooke

On Searching For Nabokov’s Rarest Paperbacks Across America

By Nina Chayka

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of 2026

By Emily Temple

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