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

• Book Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
• The Annabelle Trailer Is Here and It Is Scary
• William T. Vollmann’s Ghost Stories Are Frighteningly Self-Indulgent
• And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
• Aliens Changed the Essence of the Sequel 28 Years Ago
• Let’s Talk About How Awesome Ravenous Is
• Life After Beth Is Already on DirecTV – and Here’s a Clip
• Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life
• Summer of Sleaze: James Herbert’s The Rats and The Fog
• Homage to Horror: A Discussion of James Herbert
• “How to Know You’re a Killer” by Stephen Graham Jones
• 5 Mind Blowing Underwater Cities
• Blu-ray Review: Ginger Snaps
• The Secret Behind Romero’s Scary Zombies: “I Made Them The Neighbors”
• British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Late July New Releases
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Prisoner of Heaven in Stock and Shipping
• Beautiful Blood by Lucius Shepard in Stock and Shipping
• The Sovereign Hand (Excerpt) by Paul Gilbert
• Sleeps With Monsters: All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry
• This Is the Best Monster Art I’ve Seen in a Long Time
• “The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair” by Tom Piccirilli
• Dean Koontz: By the Book
• Romantic Horror in Victorian Fiction
• Something Wonderful This Way Comes: Smiler’s Fair by Rebecca Levene
• The Feminist Horror Author You Need to Read Now
• Review: The Children of Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron