Brandon Grafius' Reading the Bible with Horror is as academically adept as it is movingly personal. This is a book that can be profitably used by biblical scholars and their students but also, much more broadly, by those exploring cultural theory and the way religion and pop culture interact with one another. Grafius takes us on a haunted tour through the Bible's monsters, contemporary fears about race and gender, Canaanite mythology, the book of Job, Kristeva, ghosts, Freud, monotheism and polytheism, Derrida, sex, legal codes, and the horror of violence both ancient and modern. The double entendre in the title powerfully suggests that the Bible can speak to/with the horror genre but also that our readings of the Bible cannot easily proceed without facing our own fear and our sense that all is not always right. Highly recommended.