To make a titanic work of science fiction, one might think one would need to come up with a titanically long book – maybe even a titanically long series to qualify *cough* Dune *cough wheeze*. Ahem.

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...