They are just defining terms. I see a lot of confusion about this, and there's already a comment below equating curating with banning.

The mention of soft censorship (trying to remove a book from a library or curriculum) is to differentiate it from hard censorship (the government banning the publication and sale of a book). Again, there are always a few people on these types of articles trying to say that only hard censorship counts. Soft censorship is still censorship, and it's pretty much always the type that we're talking about in a U.S. context.

Hey, I would do it for $100k.

That was my Halloween read this year. I agree with you on the imagery, particularly the scene with the >!rabbit dissection!<. It was a fun expansion on Poe's short story. I did get a little annoyed at the author's habit of using modern sounding turns of phrase in the dialog, but mostly I enjoyed it.

The author has a couple of other horror books out that you might want to try if you haven't yet: The Twisted Ones and The Hollow Places. You would probably like Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic too, if you haven't read that.

Great, I'm having another middle school flashback.