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Tara Laskowski

Tara Laskowski

Tara Laskowski is the author of The Weekend Retreat, The Mother Next Door, and One Night Gone, which won an Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and Anthony Award, and was a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, Left Coast Crime Award, Strand Critics' Award, and Library of Virginia Literary Award. She is also the author of two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders, has published stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Mid-American Review, among others, and is the former editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. Tara earned a BA in English from Susquehanna University and an MFA from George Mason University and currently lives in Virginia. Find her on Twitter and Instagram, @TaraLWrites.

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Let’s All Get Scared Together

Ah, the slasher. A subgenre of horror that gets its name for the relentless, methodical murders that happen throughout the film. When you go to see a slasher, you must be ready for a lot of characters to be isolated and eventually die — and often in creative, gruesome ways.…
Tara Laskowski
November 10, 2026