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25 Literary Halloween Costumes for Adults

It’s that spooktacular time of the year again, which means once more the desperate scramble to find a perfect Halloween costume. If you’re looking for literary halloween costume ideas for adults, you’ve come to the right place. Lucky for us book loving people, we have an array colorful characters to choose from. And because book-ish …

Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 1: Sundown Recap

Lovecraft Country, Episode 1: Sundown, opens with a young man fighting in a war which is soon revealed to be an alien invasion. There are tentacled creatures and an attractive female alien. A baseball player shows up and destroys one of the tentacled aliens. Then, the young man, Atticus (“Tic”), wakes up. He’s a young …

25 Fairy Tale and Folktale Retellings (For Adults)

Books based on fairy tales and folktales have a special place in my heart. There are so many of these beautifully re-imagined stories or fun and inventive twists on well-worn tales that it’s hard to pick a favorite. I tend to prefer books written with an adult audience in mind, and I was surprised that …

My Sister the Serial Killer Movie: What We Know

My Sister the Serial Killer is being adapted into a movie. For all the details about the film adaptation of My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, here’s what we know so far: What’s it about? What’s the plot? My Sister the Serial Killer is a darkly comic satirical page-turner about two sisters, one …

Mexican Gothic Hulu Series: What We Know

Mexican Gothic is being adapted into a limited series on Hulu. For all the details on the film adaptation of this gothic horror novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, here’s what we know so far about the Mexican Gothic adaptation: What’s it about? What’s the plot? In Mexican Gothic, Noemí Taboada is a young and wealthy socialite, …