What do you get when you toss together a bunch of the most brilliant, talented, and creeptastic authors of YA and put them in a single volume of short stories that begs to be read with the lights on? The answer is this summer’s hottest anthology, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, which features stories by […]

In elementary school, I really wanted to read Stephen King’s The Stand, a contemporary, Tolkienian good ‘n’ evil story with sexual content and a page count north of 1,000. if I read it, I thought, I could read anything, and face any fear. My mother, hooked on King since The Dark Tower series, stopped me […]

From the manga of Shigeru Mizuki to the anime-manga-game franchise Yo-Kai Watch, yokai have become increasingly familiar to English-speaking audiences. But what exactly are they, and where do they come from? We talked to yokai expert Zack Davisson, translator of Mizuki’s The Birth of Kitaro, author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, and an expert on yokai […]