A color illustration shows a demonic figure with long claws gazing down at the viewer. Illustrations of the el and the Chicago skyline can be seen in the background, before a night sky. The title is on the bottom in red and yellow type.

For most of my life, I’ve been the kind of reader who skims the back of a horror novel, thinks its premise sounds fascinating, but ultimately chickens out before cracking it open. Growing up as a sensitive kid with a vivid imagination and a severe case of evangelical rapture anxiety, I wasn’t exactly a prime […]

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