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All These Houses Are Haunted: How (and Why) Horror is the Perfect Hybrid Genre

All These Houses Are Haunted: How (and Why) Horror is the Perfect Hybrid Genre

"When taken from the right perspective, every story is a horror story"

By Matthew Lyons | August 7, 2024

Why the Epistolary Format Works So Well in Crime Fiction

Why the Epistolary Format Works So Well in Crime Fiction

"Letters are a great way to manipulate your vict—I mean, audience."

By Joshua Chaplinsky | August 7, 2024

On Bram Stoker's Forgotten <em>Dracula</em> Play

On Bram Stoker's Forgotten Dracula Play

It's not good... but it IS a play

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 2, 2024

BTW, Charles Dickens's <em>Bleak House</em> is a Murder Mystery

BTW, Charles Dickens's Bleak House is a Murder Mystery

Yes it's a legal thriller. But also...

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 31, 2024

Your Hero Could Beat Up My Hero

Your Hero Could Beat Up My Hero

Or, five characters that could easily beat up my protagonist, who is very bad at fighting

By Gregg Podolski | July 31, 2024

Writing Better Neurodivergent Characters in Fiction

Writing Better Neurodivergent Characters in Fiction

Scott Lyerly on living with Tourette syndrome and bringing that reality to fiction.

By Scott Lyerly | July 31, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Sometimes We Have Big Feelings About Celebrities. And That's (Mostly) Okay.

By Josh Winning | July 31, 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: July 2024

By CrimeReads | July 30, 2024

Speculating Our Way Back to Ourselves

By Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | July 30, 2024

Crafting the Real and Surreal in Eco-Horror

Crafting the Real and Surreal in Eco-Horror

Nicholas Belardes on not turning away from unreal and mysterious occurrences in nature that can help us craft our stories

By Nick Belardes | July 29, 2024

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | July 29, 2024

Nev Fountain On Writing A Detective Novel About Fandom

Nev Fountain On Writing A Detective Novel About Fandom

"What are detectives but fans in their own way? People with a passionate interest in minutia?"

By Nev Fountain | July 29, 2024

That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip

That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip

It was the culmination in their longstanding feud about the existence of a psychic, occult world

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 26, 2024

How Researching Her New Historical Novel Made Juliet Grames Into a Detective of the Immigrant Experience

How Researching Her New Historical Novel Made Juliet Grames Into a Detective of the Immigrant Experience

The author discusses Italy, lost boys, and how research drove her.

By John B. Valeri | July 26, 2024

6 Crime and Horror Books Featuring Unusual Narrators

6 Crime and Horror Books Featuring Unusual Narrators

Heather Chavez looks at stories told from the perspectives of wildfires, security cameras, animals, and more

By Heather Chavez | July 24, 2024

Meta-Morphoses: Crafting a Book-Within-the-Book in a Thriller

Meta-Morphoses: Crafting a Book-Within-the-Book in a Thriller

"[M]etafiction is a great tool for encouraging readers to question everything."

By Lisa Kusel | July 24, 2024

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