Quartet of Screams: A Katherine Arden Interview to Remember

Scary season is upon us.

Now let’s say you had the option of interviewing any author of frightening tales for kids out there, living or dead. Whom would you choose? Would you opt for R.L. Stine? Track down Alvin Schwartz of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark fame? Christian McKay Heidicker?!?

Me? Gimme Katherine Arden every time. I can still remember reading her first book Small Spaces. Let me put it this way: I wasn’t scared of scarecrows until I read that book.

That title started an ...