Does the world need another vampire novel? I would say, yes, of course, especially if that novel is well written and adds something new or compelling to the literary conversation about vampires, a conversation that authors and readers have been having since 1872 with Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” …

Above: a beautiful stained glass window in Freeport, Maine.

Below: Reading links! Topics include an informative piece on home heating, some cultural items, and five things you should make time for in your life.

• Debunking fireplace heating myths
• A Tolkien professor’s new media approach to the …

Just in time for Halloween, tonight we’re opening the crypt, so to speak, to start into Thriller, the acclaimed horror series from 1962, hosted by Boris Karloff.

Says Sara Karloff, Boris Karloff’s daughter:

Thriller was well written, beautifully directed, and had some of the finest actors …