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Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (October 27th)

All the best literary links that are fit to, well, link

Great vampire novels where the undead don’t sparkle

A look at the publisher who (gasp) rejected Jane Austen

Philip Roth is donating his 4,000 book library to Newark Library

Critics react to Paul Beatty’s Booker win (the first for an American author)

Joyce Carol Oates remembers the late Thom Jones

Stephen King is writing a children’s book about Charlie the Choo-Choo from The Dark Tower series

The books every fan of Black Mirror should read

A guide to the work of horror author Joe Hill

When Charles Dickens met Edgar Allan Poe

The great American gothic author Shirley Jackson is finally getting her due

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