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.
The best gifts for English teachers? The answer is wine. I am—unfortunately—just kidding: most schools have made it against the ...
If you've set a resolution to get through move those classics off your TBR, here's a trick: listen to classic audiobooks!
Remember that FRIENDS episode where Joey puts a terrifying book in the freezer? One reader offers a list of some of the scariest freezer books out there.
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.