Author Spotlight: Silas Thorne

Silas Thorne writes the way fog arrives: slowly, and then all at once. We spoke with him about isolation as a craft tool and why the quietest stories tend to keep readers up the longest.

"I never trust a monster that announces itself," he told us. "The ones that frighten me wait. They have nowhere to be. Time is on their side, and they know it."

His latest, performed on the podcast this month, takes place entirely on a lighthouse with a cast of one. It is, he insists, his most crowded story yet.