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Novelist Ann Patchett has written about things as wild as hostage takeovers, fairy tales, and betrayed magicians’ assistants. But her new novel Whistler turns down the stakes to focus on the quieter complexities of human relationships. Today’s episode features two conversations b ...  Show more

Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray have just published new historical fiction. Their novel A Pair of Aces is about two women in 1930s New York who face down the mob and try to take down the infamous gangster Lucky Luciano. One of the protagonists is Eunice Carter, bas ...  Show more

You don’t need Halloween to justify reading scary books, any more than you need sand to justify reading a beach novel. But the holiday does give editors here a handy excuse to talk about some of their favorite spooky reads. On this week’s episode, the host Gilbert Cruz talks w ...

In this horror story, artist Svetlana Telets paints a piece of art called "The Woman of the Rain" that creates a sense of uneasiness to onlookers. Once the painting was purchased, the woman in the painting began to haunt the owners. And then another painting, The Hands Resist Him ...  Show more

In this episode, I talk about my intense and emotional experience of reading Marilynne Robinson's 1980 debut novel, "Housekeeping." The book tells the story of Ruthie and Lucille, two young girls haunted by loss--by the death of their grandfather, the suicide of their mother, and ...  Show more

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors C.L. McLendon, Derek Hawke, R.D. Smithey, NateJay82, and Jeffrey Ebright, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about unexpected storms, grisly gifts, perilous presents, sickeni ...  Show more