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A young woman is brutally attacked in her rural Indiana home and almost left for dead. Her memory is patchy, evidence inconclusive, yet in court she insists that it was her extremely jealous husband who did the deed; of that she is absolutely certain. On the basis of her testimony, he gets convicted and ends …
A small town in rural Minnesota. A family struggling with a history of alcoholism, mental illness and suicide. And snow - lots and lots of it. The Center of Winter is Marya Hornbacherโs first novel, but she is no stranger to writing on sensitive topics: her first book was much acclaimed Wasted: A Memoir of …
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[The following post is also available in Croatian. Please click here to access.] In case the ongoing stream of various global disasters hasnโt been enough to spook you, here are a couple of suggestions as to how you might spend your evenings this Halloween season โ or, if youโre anything like me, most evenings during …
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During his lifetime, his work was either ignored or underappreciated, only to be recognized as an important contribution to the horror fiction genre decades after his death. Who was H. P. Lovecraft, and why his writing remains so influential?
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