Lit Hub Daily: October 30, 2026

TODAY: In 1811, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is published.

• How AI is dragging us towards a future that rips the body out of body horror. | Lit Hub Technology
• October’s best book covers aren’t spooky, but it’s scary how much we love them. | Lit Hub Design
• Liz DiGregorio recommends perfectly eerie poems for Halloween by Louise Glück, Victoria Chang, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• From Psycho to Lost Highway to Titane, Tyler Malone explores driving and auto-eroticism in horror cinema. | Lit Hub Film
• On undead labor and the uncanny digital afterlife of Salvador Dalí: “Dalí’s body has not been dragged from the grave, but a version of him has been put to work, his likeness shaped and molded to fit the desires of another.” | Lit Hub Technology
• Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night, and Tracy Daugherty’s Cormac McCarthy: A Life all feature among October’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
• Why writers should have sympathy for ghosts. | Lit Hub Craft
• The literary film and TV you need to stream in November includes highly anticipated spinoffs and coming of age classics. | Lit Hub Film
• These 17 books by Sara Levine, George Packer, and more are arriving in paperback this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “My writing career began unexpectedly, with a terrible and surprising patient death.” How writing is like nursing. | Lit Hub Craft
• In praise of Blade Runner, a film that “asks the questions we might ask ourselves in the middle of the night.” | Lit Hub Film
• “We held the launch party for issue two, a rush job if there ever was one, at Scrublands, a bookstore-gallery-wine bar in the French Cleat District.” Read from Ben Lasman’s new novel, Magazine. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “I, too, am tempted by the desire to foist a narrative on the game. Isn’t that why I rooted for the Mets to lose?” Ben Cosman on Robert Coover and the impossibility of the baseball novel. | The Point
• Andie Eisen talks to some of the women taking the reins of the death industry. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “The finance sector is in love with the idea of a technology where money can be substituted for expertise.” Cory Doctorow on AI. | Jacobin
• This 19th-century death train will haunt you all Halloween weekend. | JSTOR Daily
• Alessandra Schade remembers growing up next door to R.L. Stein. | The New York Times
• Jesse Wright explores the ghosts of Route 66 in the age of AI. | Current Affairs