The beloved Mallory Ortberg — cofounder of The Toast and advice columnist for Slate's Dear Prudence — returns to fiction with the follow-up to 2014's Texts From Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations With Your Favorite Literary Characters, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror. It's a weird, wild, and absolutely addicting collection of stories that will leave you breathless — and once you're finished, it will have more than earned a permanent spot on your bedside table.