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Unusual Suspects

Woman Hired To Make James Bond Script Funnier

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date April 18, 2019

Hi mystery fans!

Pulitzer Prizes and an Upcoming Podcast

Post author By Kim Ukura
Post date April 18, 2019

Hello hello nonfiction lovers! It was a big week in the bookish world – the Pulitzer Prizes were announced!

Charlotte Brontë’s Hair On Antiques Roadshow: Today In Books

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date April 18, 2019

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by the audiobook edition of Saving Meghan by D. J. Palmer.

Charlotte Brontë’s Hair On Antiques Roadshow

The Brontë Society believes a ring found in a Welsh attic containing a braid of hair is “very likely” Charlotte Brontë’s. A woman recently went on the Antiques Roadshow in Erddig, north Wales to show the ring which is inscribed with Brontë’s name and date of death. Click here to find out how much they valued the ring at.

World Book Day = Free Ebooks!

In celebration of World Book Day Amazon has nine Kindle ebooks, from around the world, that you can download for free so long as Amazon operates in your country. Get one, get all–try a new genre or start a book club to read them all!

Official Big Little Lies 2 Teaser Trailer

Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies HBO adaptation will continue beyond the book with a season two that kept the original cast and added MERYL STREEP! I won’t say much for those who still need to go marathon season 1 but looks like MIL is gonna be trouble and some people are gonna be their own demise… Catch the teaser here! And mark June 2nd on your calendars for the show’s return.

What's Up in YA

🔥 Grab These YA Ebook Deals While They’re Hot!

Post author By Kelly Jensen
Post date April 18, 2019

Hey YA readers: Your deals are here!

“What’s Up in YA?” is sponsored by The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason and Soho Press.

A drunken mistake. A life-changing accident. The bonds of sisterhood are tested by addiction and a crushing betrayal in Lizzy Mason’s debut. When 17-year-old Harley Langston sees her boyfriend kissing her sister Audrey at a house party, she’s furious. But when her boyfriend drunkenly tries to drive Audrey home, he crashes leaving Audrey in a coma. Adrift in a sea of guilt, grief, and anger, Harley is surprised to reconnect with Raf, an old friend just out of rehab. As Audrey recovers, Harley can see a path forward with Raf’s help—one guided by honesty and forgiveness.

These deals are current as of a.m., Friday, April 19. Enjoy a little bit of everything genre-wise!

If you haven’t already read Amy Spalding or her latest book The Summer of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger In Los Angeles), you should pick it up for $2. Rom Com + queer romance + a burger rating app + fashion + a fat main character.

Want a historical mystery with characters of color by an author of color? YS Lee’s The Agency is $2.
Elizabeth Acevedo’s award-winning novel in verse The Poet X is $3.
How about an anthology about queer teens throughout history? Saundra Mitchell edited All Out, which you can snag for $4.
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson is $3.
The first book in Scott Reintgen’s “Nyxia Triad” series, Nyxia, is $2. The second book, Nyxia Unleashed, is also $2.
Pick up an Edgar Award winning mystery in Mindy McGinnis’s A Madness So Discreet for $2.
If you’re looking to kick off a historical fantasy series, Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves is $2.
You can snag a three-book collection of the first titles in the Pretty Little Liars series for $4.
Itching for some horror? Madeleine Roux’s House of Furies is $2.

Don’t miss the hilarious collection of essays by Shane Burcaw Laughing At My Nightmare for $3.

A Dexter-style mystery/thriller calling you? You’ll want to try Kim Liggett’s The Unfortunates for $3.
Lamar Giles is a YA author you should be reading, and if you haven’t yet read Endangered, you can snag it for $2.

Grab one, grab two, or grab ’em all and enjoy your weekend of good YA reads.

See you again on Monday!

— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Instagram and editor of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and Here We Are.

Swords and Spaceships

Swords and Spaceships Apr 19

Post author By Jenn Northington
Post date April 18, 2019

Hello and happy Friday, ambassadors and aswangs! Today in linky goodness we’ve got some reading recommendations, a counter to Game of Thrones, and Tolkien’s grave, plus a review of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.

This newsletter is sponsored by Finder by Suzanne Palmer.

From Hugo Award winner Suzanne Palmer comes a sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man with a simple mission: find the spacecraft Venetia’s Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, a power-hungry trade boss. Fergus locates both Gilger and Sword in a backwater deep space colony. But his arrival kicks off a civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger’s enemies to survive. Even worse, he’s become inconveniently invested in the lives of the locals. He’ll need all the help he can get to take back the Sword—and maybe save the colony from destruction in the process.

I am, perhaps weirdly, a sucker for epidemic stories (both fiction and nonfiction) so this post about 10 fictional pandemics is of great interest to me, and even has a few I haven’t read yet. (Shout-out to favs Station Eleven, Zone One, and Her Body and Other Parties!)

If you’ve been struggling with HBO’s Game of Thrones, this essay on leaving GoT and learning to love The Dragon Prince is a great and nuanced read.

The fairytale nerd in me is absolutely in love with this round-up of ways to start a story from around the world. Krik krak!

And speaking of fairytales, an amateur folklorist is here to correct some of the many misconceptions surrounding them, and I love this idea of fairytale as meme!

Do you need more unicorns in your life? DON’T WE ALL? Here are 50 must-reads, you’re welcome.

If you’re in need of “Thanos was wrong” ammunition, this look at the scientific practicalities of The Snap is my favorite, especially for the line: “If you wiped out half of all humans, in another 40 years, we’d likely be back to the same population numbers.” It would, however, be very bad for rhinos.

And from cool-and-kind-of-weird: did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien is buried in a special type of grave known as a cradle grave, that allows for gardening on top? I’m a gardener in a historic cemetery tending a couple of these, and now need to plan a pilgrimage/chat with the Tolkiens’ gardener. They will probably definitely not think I am weird at all!

Space opera ahoy! It’s A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine:

We get regular requests on the Get Booked podcast for Star Trek read-alikes, which I understand to mean space opera that contains interesting and varied characters, political and moral complexity, and trending overall towards optimism. It’s an interesting question, and I don’t take the comparison lightly. (Captain Janeway is my captain, for the record.) So when I say that Arkady Martine’s debut A Memory Called Empire should be added to that list, I really mean it.

In a galaxy far far away, in an Empire that references both the Aztecs and Romans, newly-minted ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the Emperor’s court to find her predecessor murdered. Had the previous ambassador followed protocol and backed up his memories for implant, this would just be a regular ol’ murder problem — but Dzmare only has access to an implant, or imago, that is 15 years old, and it’s malfunctioning. She has no idea what he’s been up to in the meantime, people at court know things about her home station that they shouldn’t, and Mahit has to plunge into the deadly political wheelings and dealings of Teixcalaan with only her gut instincts and occasional flashes of insight to guide her. Oh, and solve a murder!

Martine has done such excellent world-building here, both for Mahit’s Stationer home and Teixcalaan. The obsession with poetry and literature; the variety of inventive tech; the jagged emotional edges of civil unrest; the descriptions of clothes and food and the streets and the palace, and and and! It’s detailed without being overwrought, highly immersive, and fascinating. The emotional details are on point as well: Mahit struggles with her fascination with Teixcalaan and her loyalty to her home, the high-stakes game of chicken she is forced to play to maintain their independence is an absolute nail-biter, and the other characters are beautifully drawn as well. The political machinations felt genuine (and, in certain cases, unsettlingly familiar), and the action sequences were well-paced. Martine also shows the respect of a historian for her influences, which is perhaps not surprising since she is, in fact, a historian. I do have a quibble in that the use of italics for emphasis through-out is a stylistic choice I never love, but c’est la vie.

While the main plot-line came to a staggering resolution, there are no tidy conclusions to be found here. Which is as it should be; complexity begets complexity, and one can retain hope without settling for “easy” answers. I picked up this book because it had an Ann Leckie blurb on the cover, and I’m happy to say that it was well-earned. I’ll be following this series with great interest, and shelving it alongside Leckie, Le Guin, Butler, and my ST: Voyager DVDs.

And that’s a wrap! You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’re interested in more science fiction and fantasy talk, you can catch me and my co-host Sharifah on the SFF Yeah! podcast. For many many more book recommendations you can find me on the Get Booked podcast with the inimitable Amanda, or on Twitter as jennIRL.

Your fellow booknerd,
Jenn

Riot Rundown

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Post author By Devin Service
Post date April 18, 2019

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Mike Mignola’s Hellboy.

In 1994, Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, and introduced the world to the Right Hand of Doom, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and one of the most iconic comic book characters—and universes—of all time. For 25 years, Mignola and a host of celebrated writers and artists have chronicled the adventures of Hellboy. Now, for the first time ever, Dark Horse presents Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order with the Hellboy Omnibus Collection, creating the definitive reading experience for Hellboy fans and an ideal entry point for new readers.

Check Your Shelf

Vocational Awe in Libraries, a Drag Queen Sorceress, and All the Disney+ Updates

Post author By Katie McLain
Post date April 17, 2019

Welcome to Check Your Shelf! This is your guide to help librarians like you up your game when it comes to doing your job (& rocking it).

“Check Your Shelf” is sponsored by Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins and Fierce Reads.

Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that you can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play.

I’m going to be tweaking the format of the newsletter slightly over the next few weeks as I incorporate some of the great feedback you guys gave in the survey! The biggest change is that instead of having a “Books & Authors in the News” section and a separate “Upcoming Books” section, I’m combining the two into a “Collection Development Corner” that will highlight newly announced titles, genre guides & resources, and recently published books that your patrons are probably hearing about on NPR, the New York Times, etc. I hope you find it helpful!

And now, on with the newsletter…

Libraries & Librarians

This week’s lengthy, but important read: Librarian Fobazi M. Ettarh talked about librarian values and “vocational awe” at the ACRL conference in Cleveland. Take a look at her work – I read her original article about a year ago and was inspired to write about the psychological toll of library work for Book Riot. (I fully acknowledge that this barely scratched the surface of her research, which talks about the inherent classist and racist inequalities in library service and is much more nuanced than my article.) But this is a topic very much worth discussing.
Also, you can catch up with the ACRL conference using the #ACRL2019 hashtag.

News Updates

An update on the Washington Department of Corrections’ ban on sending used books to prisoners, and the fact that their reports of an increase in illegal contraband don’t add up. In the meantime, a similar situation is coming up in Georgia.
(TW: racially-motivated violence) There was an incident at Barnard College where a black student was physically stopped and restrained from entering the campus library. This is so rage-inducing, and yet sadly, so very common for black students.
Over half of the books on the ALA’s Top 11 books banned or challenged in 2018 were challenged due to LGBTQ+ content.
Spokane eliminates school librarians. BOOOOOO.
200 classic children’s stories have been withdrawn from a school library in Barcelona over concerns about sexism and gender portrayal.
Two articles on the benefits of public libraries, from the New York Review of Books and NBC.

Cool Library Ideas

People pay $100 to get a tattoo and support the Lawrence (KS) Public Library. I would totally do this.
Los Angeles Public Library debut a limited-edition library card featuring art from a local artist. This is so cool!!
Rare footage of the Black Panthers and California activism have been digitized by the Oakland Library.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books highlights the awesome events going on at libraries, from comic cons to romance cons.
Why doctors & librarians make great partners.

Worth Reading

Lots of talk about digital libraries, specifically Obama’s presidential library and Carla Hayden’s “audacious” plan to make the Library of Congress available online.
Tackling copyright concerns when taking storytime online.
LitHub created a new column called “Shhh…Secrets of the Librarians” that interviews different librarians from across the country.

Book Adaptations in the News

New adaptations coming for Rot and Ruin (Jonathan Maberry; Alcon Entertainment), Lake Success (Gary Shteyngart; HBO), The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper; Paramount TV), The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Sara Collins; Drama Republic), and Red, White, and Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston; Amazon).
First film, and now TV: Love, Simon (based on Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli) is coming to the small screen thanks to Disney+.
Shrill and Big Little Lies have both been renewed for a second season. Check out the Shrill announcement here and the trailer for Big Little Lies.
Netflix is on a book buying spree, looking for more content.

Collection Development Corner

News & Upcoming Titles

Honestly, half the reason I’m sharing the announcement of No Fuzzball!, a picture book by Isabella Kung about a spoiled cat, is for the cover.
We’re getting a Diary of a Wimpy Kid spin-off series called Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid.
Alex Gino announces Rick, a companion novel to George, which will be released in 2020!
Reverie, by Ryan la Sala, is marketed as “Inception meets The Magicians” and follows “a gay teenager with amnesia who is haunted by a drag queen sorceress.” Holy cow, I need to read this now.
Tom Doherty Associations forms a new horror imprint.
Jasmine Guillory is writing a romance novel based on Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle’s mother, called Royal Holiday, out in October. You can get an exclusive first look here.
Isabel Allende’s new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, is out in 2020.
Nikki Haley is planning a memoir.

Current Noteworthy Books

24 starred reviews for April 2019 from School Library Journal.
Best-reviewed books of the week from Bookmarks.
CrimeReads: True crime picks for April, and the best historical mysteries of 2019 (so far).
Goodreads: Top nonfiction of the year so far.
15 nonfiction books feminists should read this spring.
50 must-read crime novels published April-June 2019. (I put this list together!)

The Books Your Patrons Are Hearing About

Normal People by Sally Rooney (Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, NPR, Slate,Time, USA Today, Vulture)
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Entertainment Weekly, NPR, USA Today)
Naamah by Sarah Blake (NPR, Paste, Washington Post)
The Mister by E.L. James (Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, USA Today)
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle (New York Times, USA Today)
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro (New York Times, NPR)
White by Bret Easton Ellis (New Yorker, NPR). (I won’t lie – I have little patience for Bret Easton Ellis, but the frustration coming from the New Yorker interviewer is hilarious.)
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl (New York Times, Vanity Fair)

Numbers & Trends

Children whose parents read to them hear up to 1.4 million more words before kindergarten.
A look at social media usage amongst US adults.

Award News

2019 Pulitzer Prize winners and the LA Times Book Prizes have been announced.
Check out the Man Booker International Prize shortlist and the Best Translated Book Awards longlists here.
Tayari Jones wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize for An American Marriage.
New York Public Library announces the Young Lions Fiction Award finalists.

Pop Cultured

Updates on the Disney+ streaming service, plus everything else you need to know. (I’m resigned to the fact that I’ll definitely be plopping down money for this in November.)
We’ve got trailers for The Addams Family, Scary Stories, and the Veronica Mars reboot.
10 Game of Thrones podcasts you should listen to this season.
Roxane Gay and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom are starting an advice podcast, and I never knew I needed something so badly in my entire life.
Tor gives us a rundown on The Mandalorian.

All Things Comics

Black superheroes and comic creators descend on Tampa and the Robert W. Saunders Public Library for AfroCon.
New updates for Saga.
10 essential graphic novels and memoirs about queer women.
10 manga to read after catching up with One Piece.
An exclusive first look at The Banks by Roxane Gay!
8 superhero-inspired titles for Spider-Man-loving middle graders.
One viewer’s thoughts on The Joker trailer.
Talking with comic book artist Camilla D’Errico.

Audiophilia

Audible is recording plays! You can read about their plans here.
5 YA poetry audiobooks read by the author.
Audiobooks with theatrical narrators.

Book Lists, Book Lists, Book Lists

Children/Teens

Makerspace books for kids.
21 nonfiction books for kindergarten.
25 children’s books about grandparents.
19 unsettling YA books.
12 young adult books that address religion.
YA #ownvoices authors that highlight the “Asian/Pacific American experience.”

Adults

Great reads that celebrate the bonds between women.
7 astrophysics books for ordinary people, and 4 books about black holes.
10 essential feminist books.
Queer poetry collections to read during national poetry month.
25 books you can finish in a single weekend.
50 must-read literary biographies.
24 sci-fi & fantasy picks to shake up your book club.
7 haunted Civil War books.
Must-read essay collections by women.
20 best debuts of the first half of 2019.
16 of the best thriller books to keep you turning the pages.

Bookish Curiosities & Miscellaneous

Beverly Cleary turns 103 years old! Here are 10 quotes from Ramona the Pest to celebrate!
16 YA authors who got their start in libraries.
National Geographic: Photos of beautiful libraries from around the world.
A giant mural of a bookcase transforms the side of an apartment in Utrecht, Netherlands.
A newly-discovered 500 year old library catalog reveals summaries of books that have been lost for centuries.
How to find a book by description…or in other words, how to help the patrons that can’t remember the title or the author but remember that the book had something to do with a dog.
The Spark Notes Twitter account makes classic literature hilarious and relatable.
Recently discovered: poems by Daphne du Maurier, 90 years after they were written.
In light of the tragic fire, Vox & Electric Literature write about Victor Hugo and Notre Dame.

Level Up (Library Reads)

Do you take part in LibraryReads, the monthly list of best books selected by librarians only? We’ve made it easy for you to find eligible diverse titles to nominate. Kelly Jensen created a database of upcoming diverse books that anyone can edit, and Nora Rawlins of Early Word is doing the same, as well as including information about series, vendors, and publisher buzz.

Thanks for hanging out and I’ll see you again next week!

–Katie McLain, @kt_librarylady on Twitter. Currently reading Ill Will by Dan Chaon.

Book Radar

SAGA is Coming to an End and More Book Radar!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date April 17, 2019

Welcome back, book fans! It’s a gorgeous week here in Maine. I haven’t been able to take vacation like I thought, but that’s okay, I’m still in my favorite place, doing what I love, so I don’t mind. (Although I need some marathon television watching time! I still haven’t seen Shrill or the newest season of Grace & Frankie.) I also had a great time as a guest this week on What Should I Read Next? with Anne Bogel. I welcome any and all chances to talk books! And speaking of which: I have some fun book-related news for you today. I hope whatever you’re doing, you have a great rest of your week, and remember to be kind to yourself and others. – xoxo, Liberty

Catch Up On The London Celebrities Before THE AUSTEN PLAYBOOK

Post author By Jessica Pryde
Post date April 17, 2019

Did you know that today (April 18) was the anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906? It was a terrible tragedy, but my connection to it lies in a vaguely happier experience: the movie San Francisco, starring the amazing Jeannette MacDonald and the handsome (if pretty terrible IRL) Clark Gable. I grew up watching that movie with my grandmother, and I still watch it on days when I’m feeling really down. Since I started reading romance, I have tried to find one set around that event that sparks the same kind of feelings in me as that movie, but have never succeeded. Someday.

Anyway, on to the rest!

Sponsored by The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Anstey and Swoon Reads

A dark and twisty regency novel perfect for readers who like their Jane Austen classics with a side of mystery and murder. 1833. A near-fatal carriage accident has deposited an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of young Lord Ellerby. When she finally awakens, it is with no memory of who she is or where she came from. As the mystery woman tries to solve the puzzle of her own identity and the appalling events that brought her to their door, nothing can prepare her for the escalating dangers that await. What she can’t remember could be deadly.

Over on Book Riot

Aimee Miles had some thoughts on Seattle sports romances. What are your favorites?

Looking for that historical romance about the duke who falls in love with the martial arts practitioner who might be a courtesan…or maybe a baker? Don’t remember the title or the author, though. Kelly gave us all some tips on how to find a book by description.

Pack your noms, because these books will make you want a snack!

Deals

Lucy Parker’s The Austen Playbook comes out next week, and while it can stand alone, now is a great time to marathon the first three books in the series. If you don’t have them individually, the London Celebrities Collection is 1.99. That’s two dollars for three amazing books. And then you can grab the fourth and be all caught up!

Looking for a new Urban Fantasy series to try? Shadow Blade, the first in Seressia Glass’s Shadowchasers series, is 99 cents right now. Take an antiquities expert who also hunts bad things, and an ancient being who wants something she has, and you’ve got the start to some serious adventures. And danger and toil, but mostly adventures.

New Books!

There are a lot of new books out this week, but I haven’t managed to get my hands on a lot of them. But I’m excited to share a few with you—one I’ve read, the others are hanging out on my side-table, waiting for me.

Their Troublesome Crush
Xan West

This is an absolutely adorable book—which is not something I ever thought I’d say about a book featuring Daddy/Good Boy, D/s, and rope kinks. But Ernest, the protagonist of this novel, is a man I want to hug to death (but he’s touch averse, so only if he let me). His entire found family is kinky and polyamorous, and the majority of them fall under the trans/gender nonconforming umbrella. They’re also mostly Jewish and celebrate the Holy days together.

But back to the story. The novella starts with Ernest and his metamour Nora getting together to plan their Dom Gideon’s birthday party. Ernest is autistic and demiromantic, but something about Nora makes him feel weird. He’s never been romantically attracted to a cis person before, and he’s a little freaked out by the possibility. But he still wants to keep the metamour relationship they have going, and to do a good job at planning his Daddy’s party. (As I mentioned before, there is Daddy/Good Boy kink here; if that’s not your thing, this one isn’t for you.) But if Nora also has a crush on him, what could happen? Does she, or is he just reading into something he assumes is allistic confusingness?

Did I mention the protagonist of this book also loves show tunes, and is writing a(n even) queer(er) musical version of Yentl? Yeah. You want to read this.

Other books out this week:

A Lover’s Mercy by Fiona Zedde
The Rose by Tiffany Reisz
Fame Adjacent by Sarah Skilton
You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte Bautista
Recipe for Love by Aurora Rey
Under His Protection by LaQuette
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
Lover’s Bid by AC Arthur (and the rest of the Distinguished Gentlemen series, which has been slowly releasing)
The Mister by EL James (if you hadn’t heard)

What are you reading this weekend?

As usual, catch me on Twitter @jessisreading or Instagram @jess_is_reading, or send me an email at jessica@riotnewmedia.com if you’ve got feedback, book recs, or just want to say hi!

Today In Books

Bookmobiles Are Coming To You New York: Today In Books

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date April 17, 2019

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by the audiobook edition of The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves.

Bookmobiles Are Coming To You, New York

Starting in June, for the Bronx, and fall, for Staten Island and Manhattan, residents will get to browse 1,000 books (for all ages) check out, return, renew, and get a library card from one of NYPL’s bookmobiles. Vroom vroom, check them out here.

Unseen Kafka Works May Get Seen

A decade-long battle over several safe-deposit boxes has reached a verdict that has many speculating that we may finally get to see unfinished and unpublished work by Franz Kafka. “The judgment of the Swiss court completes the preparation of the National Library of Israel to accept the entire literary estate of Max Brod, which will be properly handled and will be made available to the wider public in Israel and the world.” (What if it’s just boxes filled with bugs?…)

Get Your Creepy On

The official trailer for the adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle is here. The film, about the surviving family members after an arsenic poisoning, will be in theaters on May 17th–maybe skip the popcorn this time.