The Horror Novels Defining Summer 2026 Summer reading lists often lean toward beach escapes, family sagas, and breezy thrillers. Horror has a different agenda. The best horror novels arrive with a sense of unease that lingers long after the final page, turning familiar places and ordinary experiences into something stranger. This summer’s most talked-about releases […]
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Travel publishing has long favored lists: the world’s best beaches, hidden cities, remote islands, forgotten ruins. Travis Elborough approached the subject differently. His atlas books focused on places shaped by collapse, isolation, failed ambition, environmental change, and historical accident. The destinations mattered, but the larger subject was human behavior—the urge to build in impossible landscapes,
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The Book That Changed the Conversation Some art history books quietly fill gaps. Others redraw the map. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement belongs to the second category. Written by art historian Whitney Chadwick, the book reframed Surrealism at a moment when museums, critics, and classrooms largely told the story through a tight circle
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A New Wave of Horror From Latin America Over the past decade, a group of Latin American writers has pushed horror out of the decorative and into the civic. This new movement is less concerned with noises in the dark than with what already fills the day—gendered violence, class contempt, ecological collapse, state terror, and
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Blame the weather, politics, or the news cycle this month: this roundup of books is dark. Things feel a bit bleak in February 2026 and I’ve been trying to get my head around the aggression of the world by reading things that resonate with uneasy emotions. Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez, and Marcus Kliewer take us
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In 2026, the audiobook market is no longer a monopoly. While one giant has long loomed over the industry, a shift toward ethical consumption and public accessibility has redefined how we read on the go. Whether you are looking to support your local community, save money, or finally tackle your to-read list without a subscription
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The Mars saga that started above a garage When Red Rising hit shelves on January 28, 2014, it sold readers a hard-edged fantasy of social mobility on Mars. A miner from the bottom caste gains access to the ruling class and chooses sabotage over gratitude. The author, Pierce Brown, built the book into the opening
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Our reading stack is always diverse and this month is no different. Sometime’s we are in the mood for Chuck Klosterman’s outsider take on Football and sometimes we dive into Agustina Bazterrica’s dark dystopian worlds. Here’s what’s on our nightstands right now. American Sirens Kevin Hazzard, a journalist and former paramedic, tells the story of
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A dark and intriguing love story between a vampire and a werewolf by fans favorite creator Sarah Andersen.
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OZ: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting by Andrew Kolb is a setting for modern tabletop role-playing games and optimized for D&D 5e. This setting takes inspiration from the original series of books and films and expands the location into a bustling metropolis for players to explore. I never knew that I’d love exploring the world of
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Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan I tend to enjoy solo games and especially narrative experiences that involve puzzles. As a child I read lots CYOA books and I’ve always found non-linear books to be exciting. So when our editor handed me a copy of Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan to review, I was quickly pulled into this graphic text
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Thousand Year Old Vampire RPG As a fan of solo gaming experiences I have been curious about Tim Hutchings’ creations. They are often clever experiments packaged into game form, prompts and directions that push the reader to create something with the elements at hand. Thousand Year Old Vampire is a high mark of these creations – a
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Dhalgren Dhalgren is a deeply influential science fiction novel that as written by Samuel R. Delany and published in 1975. The book is a complex and multi-layered work of dystopian science fiction that has influenced numerous books, films, and games in the years since its publication. At its core, Dhalgren is a novel about the
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In 1972, the Soviet Union was at the height of the Cold War, the space race was in full swing, and the world was still grappling with the aftermath of World War II. Against this backdrop, brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky published a novel that would become a classic of Soviet science fiction: Roadside Picnic.
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As the sun sets over the sprawling metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, a group of cyber-enhanced operatives gathers in a dimly-lit warehouse. They huddle around a makeshift table, their eyes fixed on a glowing screen. This is not a scene from a futuristic action movie; it’s a typical night of gameplay for fans of “The Sprawl,” a
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Monster of the Week Tabletop RPG Monster of the Week by Michael Sands is an action-horror TTRPG that puts players in the shoes of hunters on a quest defeat supernatural monsters. Based on the popular Apocalypse World RPG system, this game allows players to create and explore their own action-horror adventures. Whether hunting high school beasties
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“Shoot, ram, skid, and loot your way through the ruins of civilization with Gaslands: Refuelled, the tabletop miniature wargame of post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem.” Gaslands: Refuelled from Osprey Games is a vehicular tabletop strategy game where players battle one another in a post-apocalyptic setting. The game was created by Mike Hutchinson, who is also the author of
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We get into a creepy zone for winter 2023 with horror games and films. Featuring such titles as The Last of Us, Barbarian, Twin Peaks, Cultic, Sunless Sea, and Call of Cthulhu TTRPG. I always go into the holiday season with excitement and come out the other side emotionally exhausted. This year the post-holiday blues
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The Creative Act in Book Form Rick Rubin‘s new book, The Creative Act – A Way of Being, is beautiful and frustrating. It’s a gorgeous tome of advice wrapped in fabric that is lovely to hold. Written by one of my favorite creative people in modern history with good intentions of delivering useful information as
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Edward Packard and R. A. Montgomery’s groundbreaking series of Choose Your Own Adventure books have entertained and inspired many of us. We take a look at the history, structure, and influence of this famous series of non linear book creation. Edward Packard first conceived the idea for CYOA books while telling stories to his children.
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