You Hear The Strangest Things: The Eerie Stories Of Robert AickmanThe midcentury English author's dark stories have been making a comeback — and are ideal for fireside listening on dark nights.
Personality Is Everything: Why Trollope's 'Barchester Towers' Is Juicier Than You'd ThinkAn in-depth look at the 19th-century classic reveals a cheekier side to insular English clerical politics (yes, there was one).
Bloody, Dark, And Real: The Willa Cather They Didn't Teach You In SchoolMost modern readers mistake Willa Cather's 'My Ántonia' for a romantic, frilly novel—but it contains an undercurrent of darkness that would become a central theme of her later novels.
The Amazing, Strange, And Horrifying History Of Irish StorytellingGrab a warm drink and brace yourself for the dark story behind Ireland's dark stories.