• Craft

    Are You the Scorpion or the Frog? Horror as Social Commentary

    "[H]orror is drawn from our connections with each other, and makes us reconsider the roles we play in each other’s lives."

    September 5, 2024  By Vincent Tirado
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    Templates, Not Fantasies: Complicated Final Girls and Why We Need Them

    If we can see ourselves reflected in the Final Girl, we can learn from her how to survive

    September 4, 2024  By Cheryl Isaacs
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    Why Thrillers Matter

    "[W]hen heroes defeat villains...they also defeat the worst in ourselves."

    September 4, 2024  By Mike Maden
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    Attica Locke: That’s a Wrap

    With 'Guide Me Home', Attica Locke Concludes Her Highway 59 Series Featuring Texas Ranger Darren Mathews 

    September 3, 2024  By Nancie Clare
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    Labors of Love: Eli Cranor on Education, Empathy and Experience  

    "The point is how much is enough? And what is the cost of wanting more?"

    August 30, 2024  By John B. Valeri
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    Books In Which Things Are Terrible Even Before the Haunted Cabin Shows Up

    This fall and winter, horror turns to rustic retreats, lakeside vacation spots, and woodsy rentals for setting inspiration

    August 29, 2024  By Molly Odintz
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    Two Sherlockians and a Former Journo Walk into a Zoom Call…

    Nicholas Meyer and Leslie Klinger discuss Meyer’s new 'Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell.' Nancie Clare listens in and asks one question.

    August 28, 2024  By Nancie Clare
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    Forgive, but Don't Forget: On Redemption in Crime Fiction

    "Forgiveness is not about forgetting; it is about understanding."

    August 27, 2024  By Adam Mitzner
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    My First Thriller: John Gilstrap

    Lightning and serendipity. The rejections never stopped, nor did the money.

    August 22, 2024  By Rick Pullen
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    William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

    Boyle and Polly Stewart revisit Masini's intense, obsessive 'About Yvonne'

    August 22, 2024  By Polly Stewart
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