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Victor LaValle’s novel ‘Lone Women’ reinvents the western, adding horror and a Black woman pioneer protagonist — with help from the women in his own life.

“People sometimes ask why I want to read horror at all, let alone write it,” says the horror novelist, whose new book is “Lone Women.” “So much writing glances off the hardest and worst experiences, but horror confronts the worst that happens. ... A good horror novel doesn’t lie to you.”

Three Stockton University staffers led the search for illegal prohibition-era booze still on the ocean floor off the New Jersey coast on an episode of National Geographic's Drain the Oceans.

Three Stockton University staffers led the search for illegal prohibition-era booze still on the ocean floor off the New Jersey coast on an episode of National Geographic's Drain the Oceans.

Two Stockton University professors and the director of the school's Marine Field Station appeared on the latest episode of National Geographic's 'Drain the Oceans,' a docuseries about maritime mysteries. The episode explored the history of the mob and its connections to Prohibition in the United States.