How To Be Unpopular

We're in strange times for horror and fantasy.
China Mieville writes the knockout 'Kraken' and gets criticized for being too weird.
Stephen King writes four new novellas and gets praised for avoiding the supernatural.
TV dramas like 'Whitechapel' get greenlit so long as they have a factual element in them.
Writers produce fiction based on real-life crimes.
Whatever happened to [...]