Here’s what I’ve been reading and viewing online this week:

• None of Us Would Survive One Day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
• Why Horror is Good for You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
• Summer of Sleaze: The Little People
• “The Room in the Tower” by E.F. Benson
• Laird Barron AMA
• Excerpt: Danie Ware’s Ecko Burning
• Top 5 Italian Horror Films
• The Cartographer Who Mapped Out Gotham City
• With “Legend of the Bunnyman,” a Local Band Celebrates a Quirky Urban Myth
• Hercules: Trailer #2
• “The Walking Stick Forest” by Anna Tambour
• Here’s a Creature from The Strain
• “The Only Ending We Have” (Excerpt) by Kim Newman
• Ghoulish Stabbing Raises Question: Who Is Slenderman?
• Jon Koons Reviews Who Was Dracula? Bram Stoker’s Trail of Blood by Jim Steinmeyer
• The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
• Nyarlarthotep, Master of Disguise
• The Big Sleep
• St. Peter’s List: 4 Facts About the Catholic Saint Who Fought the Loch Ness Monster
• Gruesome Road Trip: Michigan Man Drives Cross-Country with Corpse in Passenger Seat
• James Cameron’s Aliens in LEGO
• Further Afield in Lovecraftian Places that Really Exist
• Harvard Experts Confirm that Book Really Was Bound with Human Skin

Here are some upcoming horror books to watch for.

Hardback

• The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
• The Memory of Trees by F. G. Cottam
• House of Bells by Chaz Brenchley
• Bliss House by Laura Benedict
• Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti by Matt Cardin
• Red Winter by Dan Smith
• The House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

Paperback

• Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014 Edition ed. by Paula Guran
• Fearful Symmetries ed. by Ellen Datlow
• The Wolves of Midwinter by Anne Rice
• Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
• The Strain trilogy (TV tie-in editions) by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Omens by Kelley Armstrong
• Acolytes of Cthulu ed. by Robert M. Price
• Blood of the Lamb by Sam Cabot
• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
• Garden of Evil by Graham Masterton
• December Park by Ronald Malfi
• The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice
• The Troop by Nick Cutter
• The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker