Tolkien's fiction reminds us that power cannot be controlled; it enslaves you. To act freely is to acknowledge your limits, to see the journey as a long road that includes dozens of future elections, and to fight against the temptation for power.

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a selection of frightening books with Catholic themes—some written by Catholic authors, some not—that will haunt you into at least tomorrow, and maybe forever.

Jason Blakely show that the very tools we human beings use to try to understand the world in fact end up constructing it, for better or for worse.

Stephen Graham Jones's new novel creates an extraordinary portrait of sacrifice and costly reconciliation.

The stories in Valerie Sayers's new collection are populated with characters who strive to hang on to something good.

Sarah Ramey in her new book: "My case went unsolved for fourteen years because no one would listen to me and the reason they would not listen to me is because I am a woman.”