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The secret life of spiders

“I’m sure everyone knows that spiders make silk and have venom, but they also fly, play songs, walk on water, solve puzzles, and live everywhere, from underwater to the tallest mountain peaks on Earth,” said James O’Hanlon, author of Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders, which is a book about the remarkable lives of one of the most misunderstood and maligned creatures on the planet: the spider.

A snake could save your life

Mother Nature is one of the deadliest forces that people experience outside of the comfort of their homes. Whether it’s natural disasters or animals, it always seems like something is trying to kill something else.

A taste of terror

Spooky season isn’t just about costumes and cobwebs — it’s about flavor. Every October, the world transforms into a cauldron of cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar.

A mysterious dystopian with I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman is a dystopian novel about a group of 40 women trapped in a bunker, unaware of how they got there, and their eventual escape.

Celebrating fear

With Halloween around the corner, most of us can’t wait to get through this week and embrace the “Halloweekend.” Between the costumes, parties, and treats, we finally get to escape from the weight of classes and work for a night.

The case of the disappearing Stute

The following anecdote must be read with your face under a flashlight and a spooky voice:

It was a dark and stormy Thursday night.

The scariest thing I deal with every month

Forget haunted houses and horror movies—the scariest thing I deal with every month doesn’t come with fake blood; it’s the real thing.

The holiday season begins, brace yourself

Brace yourself, the holiday season is now upon us. In the following 61 days, four major holidays will be taking place: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve.

The Halloween canon event

Halloween! Ghosts, ghouls, goblins! So scary! But have you ever heard of the Halloween canon event? That’s the biggest thing you should be afraid of this Halloween season.

Sinners: blood, blues and vampires

People think that horror movies need a haunted house, vengeful ghosts or jump scares around every corner. But Sinners redefines the genre, using the blues and an Irish vampire with a dark history and a darker purpose.