In this lively history of the Miss America pageant, how to wave is only the start of what a beauty queen had to learn.

Though the subject is normally quite morbid, author Kathy Benjamin puts the fun in funerals by making readers chuckle, in a shoulder-nudging way that lets us know it's okay if we don't necessarily want mourners crying beside our crypts.

The Angels in Seattle Awards were distributed on the first day of the festival, September 18 to "honor the unsung heroes of the industry: arts administrators, arts educators, and artists working behind the scenes."

When the suggestion to read Carmilla, the original vampire novel, came to the SGN's book club, I took it as a challenge, a fun way to revisit childhood fears and reassure my adult self that monsters are not real.

Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, and Masahiro Higashide star in director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's period melodrama thriller.

A geneticist and an immunologist walk into a bar... and sit down and discuss the nature of humanity — Shakespeare and all! Charles Waxberg's new play is not shy about tackling a huge question.

Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, and Toby Huss star in director Joe Carnahan's action cop thriller.

Jay Coles' new young adult novel features a bisexual character.

Ruth Platt explores emotionally cathartic supernatural horror with Martyrs Lane.

Supernatural horror Martyrs Lane is an arrestingly haunting tale.