What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers
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What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers

B1IntermediateOctober 23, 202651 min
  • Arts & culture

Halloween is the season for scary stories, but what actually makes a book frightening? And where should you start if you’re not already a horror reader? This week on “The Book Review” podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks with two writers who know their way around the genre. Leigh Bardugo is the best-selling author behind the Grishaverse series and the Ninth House trilogy, which just concluded with the release of “Dead Beat.” Paul Tremblay is the author of “A Head Full of Ghosts” and this year’s “Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.” Bardugo looks back at the books and sto...

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I'm Ray Dronge. I cover climate and the environment for the New York Times. I recently spent eight weeks on a research ship going to Antarctica. The planet's getting warmer, ice is melting away. Sea level rise is going to change our coastal cities.

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It's one thing to read about what scientists have discovered when they write papers, but it's another thing entirely to be there with them. This is what we do at the New York Times. We want to bring you closer to the biggest stories that matter for how we all live in the world.

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If you'd like to support this work, you can become a subscriber at nytimes.com slash subscribe. The story that really hit me in that book was The Boogie Man, and I remember reading it, and I was terrified. And when that fear started to wear off, I read it again.

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