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This Summer in Horror Movies
Concert-going serial killers, Satanic cults, and sinister resort complexes.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| August 23, 2024
Meet Thomas Byrnes, Gilded Age New York's Performative, Corrupt Police Detective
He staged elaborate scenes to extract confessions, presented prisoners to police in a "parade," and invented the "Rogues' Gallery"
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| August 15, 2024
Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel
Snowden Wright on Elmore Leonard and the evolution of an American icon.
By
Snowden Wright
| August 13, 2024
The Rockford Files and the Allure of the Shady PI
Keith Roysdon remembers a favorite seriess, and the real-life PI who proved that ‘Rockford Files’ was practically a documentary.
By
Keith Roysdon
| August 12, 2024
Presenting
Série Noire,
the Bleak French Neo Noir You've Never Seen
It's Alain Corneau's classic adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| August 9, 2024
5 Iconic 1990s Thriller Films
"The thing that made these movies...was the fact that the villains started off seeming like regular people."
By
Liz Alterman
| August 9, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
On Bram Stoker's Forgotten
Dracula
Play
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| August 2, 2024
Sometimes We Have Big Feelings About Celebrities. And That's (Mostly) Okay.
By
Josh Winning
| July 31, 2024
Nev Fountain On Writing A Detective Novel About Fandom
By
Nev Fountain
| July 29, 2024
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
Remembering John Waters's true-crime satire
Serial Mom
"His parody of true crime stories, and the media circus they attract, reveals the perverse desires and anxieties of American life."
By
Julia Sirmons
| July 19, 2024
The Best Worst Detectives in Crime Film and TV
The sleuths who are so bad... they're tons of fun
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| June 28, 2024
Western Humanities Education and the Well-Educated Police Detective
"Is 'police detective' the answer pop culture most eagerly provides to the question 'what does one do with a humanities degree?'"
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| June 26, 2024
How to Celebrate Women in Horror All Year Round
How to support female-identifying horror creators, from the writers of "The Science of Women in Horror"
By
Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl
| June 26, 2024
American Psycho
and the Rise of Capitalist Horror
Bret Easton Ellis's status-obsessed yuppies traded humanity for consumerism. They're more relevant now than ever before.
By
E. K. Sathue
| June 21, 2024
Quiz: Can You Identify These Femme Fatales from Classic Crime Novels?
Women are tough. So is this quiz.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| June 21, 2024
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