I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the Book Review

podcast.

It's the weekend before Halloween.

Maybe that means you're dressing up and going to a party.

Maybe it means you're very performatively not dressing up.

Maybe it means you're carving pumpkins with your kids or watching something scary.

Or maybe it means you're reading something creepy.

Me, I'm doing all of them.

Some of them, possibly at the same time.

So on this week's episode, I'm here to talk with book review editors Tina Jordan and

Sadie Stein, who's calling in from London, about frightening books, ghost stories, why we

like them, why we love them, and some recommendations for you listeners.

Tina, thank you for being here.

Hi Gilbert, thanks for having me.

Sadie, you were made to be on this episode.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So the three of us are gathered because this is just something that we are naturally interested

in.

And I think each of us has done a lot of reading into the scary story space.

I want to ask each of you to start.

What for you makes a good ghost story, and why do you even care about the stuff?

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