• Craft

    We Inherit Our Ghosts: On Gothic Fiction and the Need to Remember

    "The gothic as a genre is about the skeletons in the family’s closet."

    September 27, 2024  By Wen-yi Lee
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    A Failed Utopian Settlement and a Lingering Historical Mystery

    "How could I craft a true crime narrative based on conflicting, and sometimes deliberately deceitful, accounts?"

    September 26, 2024  By Abbott Kahler
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    Dean Koontz: On Writing Novels That Make Your Publisher Extremely Uneasy

    Why the best-selling author has always moved across genres.

    September 24, 2024  By Dean Koontz
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    A Tale of Two Cities: Taking My Fictional Detective From Minneapolis to LA

    PJ Tracy shakes up her series with some changes in setting

    September 19, 2024  By P.J. Tracy
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    The Backlist: Rebecca Makkai on 'The Murderess' and Reading in Translation

    Makkai and Polly Stewart discuss Alexandros Papadiamantis and the project that's taking Makkai across the world of literature.

    September 18, 2024  By Polly Stewart
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    Objectively Speaking: 6 Cursed Object Novels

    Nightmare vehicles, frightening jewelry, and a dead man's suit

    September 17, 2024  By Lamar Giles
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    Justice for Lucy Westenrea

    On reconsidering, and reimagining, one of the most mistreated characters in fiction

    September 11, 2024  By Kiersten White
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    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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