n this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen … Continue reading Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Paperback – July 7, 2015 by Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J Dubner

Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology’s most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century’s most pressing concerns―free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child … Continue reading Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century Paperback – February 17, 2005 by Lauren Slater

The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary’s Baby   With an Introduction by Peter Straub  For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good … Continue reading The Stepford Wives Paperback – July 23, 2002 by Ira Levin

The shocking truth about some of the most disturbing, criminal cults that have ever existed. How did Charles Manson inspire his “family” to launch a campaign of murder? What twisted ideology lay behind horrific events like the Waco Siege, the … Continue reading Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder Paperback – Illustrated, February 4, 2020 by Emily G. Thompson

Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? We thought … Continue reading Night of the Mannequins Paperback – September 1, 2020 by Stephen Graham Jones

In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to … Continue reading Clown in a Cornfield Hardcover – August 25, 2020 by Adam Cesare

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, … Continue reading Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film – Updated Edition (Princeton Classics) by Carol J. Clover

From scream queens to femmes fatale, horror isn’t just for the boys. Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present … Continue reading The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films Paperback – February 18, 2020 by Meg Hafdahl

It is hungry. It is thirsty. It lives next door to Charley Brewster. Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire’s next victim. But no one will believe him: not … Continue reading Fright Night: The Novelization by John Skipp