In Rebecca Roanhorse's Train of Lightning, Ma'ii (aka Coyote) is the only person to call Maggie by her full name, Magdalena. This is stated explicitly: The same creature, looking mostly like a man and wearing the same outlandish Western costume, now sits drinking tea in my favorite chair in m...

I solved this one in the process of asking the question, so I'm self-answering. I remember it as being part of an Alfred Hitchcock anthology. The protagonists get pulled into investigating the murder of an old lady who's found dead on her kitchen floor (I remember very vividly the black-and-whi...

In The War of the Worlds, in Book 1 Chapter 12, one of the Martians is destroyed by artillery fire. Among all the themes that are prominent in the book, which theme would link to this moment best? I thought that perhaps you could associate the destruction of the Martian with the theme of Imperia...