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Two collections of horror stories modernize the genre

Two collections of horror stories modernize the genre

Update: 2024-04-19
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Spooky season is year-round, and so are our episodes about scary stories. First up, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jeanette Winterson about The Night Side of the River, a collection of ghost stories that weaves in the liminal spaces — Metaverses, one might say — created through technology to coexist with the dead. Then, NPR's Juana Summers asks Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about The Black Girl Survives in This One, an anthology of horror stories by Black writers that contend with the genre's relationship to race.


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Two collections of horror stories modernize the genre

Two collections of horror stories modernize the genre