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    This Summer in Horror Movies

    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

    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

    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

    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 <em>Série Noire,</em> the Bleak French Neo Noir You've Never Seen

    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

    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

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    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

    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 <em>Serial Mom</em>

    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 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

    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 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

    <em>American Psycho</em> and the Rise of Capitalist Horror

    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.

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    Quiz: Can You Identify These Femme Fatales from Classic Crime Novels?

    Quiz: Can You Identify These Femme Fatales from Classic Crime Novels?

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