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8 Great Tales That Feature Supernatural and Otherworldly Houses

Ashley Woo recommends home horror by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Marcus Kliewer, Riley Sager, and more
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026

Vampires seeking vengeance in Korea, cat solving crimes in Japan, horror stories from Madrid, and a French true crime classic
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The 96-Year-Old Murder Mystery Film With an All-Dog Cast That Just Broke the Internet

MGM's "Who Killed Rover" is back in the conversation... but reminds us about an era before animal protections in Hollywood.

We now have a trailer for Mike Flanagan's TV adaptation of Carrie

By Olivia Rutigliano

Kasey Lansdale on Writing an Inexperienced Small-Town PI Protagonist

By Kasey Lansdale

A Brief History of Stolen Paintings

By Felix Francis

How the Directors of 'Chronovisor' Created a Modern Borgesian Mystery for the Big Screen

By Radha Vatsal

J.T. Ellison on Deception, Duality and Domestic Suspense

By John B. Valeri

Carly Hillman on Going from Producing Colbert's Late Show to Writing a Crime Novel

By Carly Hillman

Carrie Talick on Mashing Up Genres and Injecting Comedy into Murder Mysteries

By Carrie Talick

7 Crime Novels That Feature Outsiders Who Challenge the Status Quo

By Tanya Grant

Carolyn Marie Wilkins on Historical Fiction, Cults, and Writing Psychic Characters (as a Psychic)

By Alex Dueben

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'Til Death: Rachel Harrison on Why Weddings Make Perfect Horror Settings

By Rachel Harrison

Sarai Walker on Sylvia Plath, Academic Satire, and Creating a Fictional True Crime Author

By Alex Dueben

The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026

By Molly Odintz

How Harry Kurnitz Conquered Hollywood, Broadway, and the Biblio-Mystery

By Nicholas A. Basbanes

The 96-Year-Old Murder Mystery Film With an All-Dog Cast That Just Broke the Internet

By Olivia Rutigliano

Literary Hub

September 10, 2026

Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness

By Stef Ferrari

Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists

By Adam Dalva

34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple

How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex

By Suzanne Roberts

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