• Culture

    Why We Will Always Love "The Masque of the Red Death"

    Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Masterpiece

    September 16, 2019  By S.D. Sykes
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    50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

    An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.

    September 13, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

    September 13, 2019  By Eleni Theodoropoulos
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    The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

    How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

    September 13, 2019  By John Copenhaver
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    Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer

    On learning to write thrillers about social issues from comic books.

    September 12, 2019  By John Vercher
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    A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

    Criminal Broads Presents: An interview with Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites

    September 12, 2019  By Tori Telfer
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    In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

    Or, how to write villains with empathy (but no excuses)

    September 12, 2019  By Nathan Makaryk
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    4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories

    On character being more affecting than plot

    September 11, 2019  By Thomas Kies
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    The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

    Because what is love if not a complete mystery?  

    September 10, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Long, Proud Tradition of Jazz-Infused Crime Novels

    From the beginning, noir and jazz have gone hand-in-hand.

    September 9, 2019  By Alex Segura
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