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    Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre Fiction

    Mandy McHugh on learning craft from a pop icon.

    October 17, 2023  By Mandy McHugh
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    A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and History

    "Explaining the night, carving down the sum total of the experience into words is damaging—the easier it is to talk about, the less extraordinary it becomes."

    October 16, 2023  By Nora Fussner
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    Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless

    On the Many Masks of Michael Myers, from Unknowable Force of Nature to Explainable Antagonist

    October 13, 2023  By Michael Kraus
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    Black Horror Fiction Has Always Been Here. What's Changed Is The Attitudes of Gatekeepers.

    Contributors to the new anthology Out There Screaming discuss the long history of Black horror fiction and supernatural social justice stories.

    October 13, 2023  By Molly Odintz
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    Lou Berney On The Immense Appeal of Ordinary Characters

    Advice for crafting believable, complex, and always surprising everyday people.

    October 13, 2023  By Lou Berney
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    Melissa Adelman and Nora Murphy On the Art of Suburban Suspense

    Read a conversation between two psychological thriller authors at the top of their game.

    October 12, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    My First Thriller: Jeffery Deaver

    How Deaver went from publishing the wrong novels to writing his breakout thriller.

    October 11, 2023  By Rick Pullen
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    10 Years Later, "Prisoners" Eerily Predicted Our Current Moment

    Revisiting Denis Villeneuve's bleak portrait of fear and fantasy

    October 11, 2023  By Zack Budryk
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    How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the "Literary Thriller"

    Jean Kwok asks authors how they approach reader and artistic demands.

    October 11, 2023  By Jean Kwok
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    “A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

    "Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."

    October 10, 2023  By Sam Rebelein
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