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Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

By Zee Carlstrom | April 9, 2025

Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

"[E]very word is fighting for space on the page and on the screen...I get in, I say what I need to, and I get out."

By Jenny Bartoy | April 9, 2025

Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

"I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

By Molly Harper | April 8, 2025

Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

"There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

By Tariq Ashkanani | April 8, 2025

Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

By Scott Montgomery | April 7, 2025

High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

"Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

By Matt Plass | April 7, 2025

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A Quest for a Loyal Dracula Adaptation

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 4, 2025

‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’ and Other Men’s Adventure Magazine Legends

By Keith Roysdon | April 4, 2025

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

By Grady Hendrix | April 4, 2025

New International Fiction to Check Out This Spring

New International Fiction to Check Out This Spring

Cultural clashes in India, pop stars in France, queer heroes in Turkey, and more

By Molly Odintz | April 4, 2025

Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

11 new and upcoming queer mysteries and thrillers to carry you through to summer

By Queer Crime Writers | April 3, 2025

The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke

Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.

By Polly Stewart | April 3, 2025

And we have a clip from Season 2 of <em>Poker Face</em>!

And we have a clip from Season 2 of Poker Face!

A peek into Season Two of Rian Johnson's long-awaited PI show is here!

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2025

Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight

Finding a story's emotional truth.

By Bryan Gruley | April 2, 2025

Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression

"[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."

By Shalini Abeysekara | April 2, 2025

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