• Essays

    What Fictional Violence Teaches Us About the Real Thing (and Vice Versa)

    After experiencing a brutal attack by a complete stranger, Jennifer Fawcett had to rethink everything she knew about writing violence

    October 9, 2025  By Jennifer Fawcett
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    Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

    "[S]ustainability and locality are the hallmarks of intelligence. So why are we looking for worlds on fire?"

    October 8, 2025  By Daniel H. Wilson
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    The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery

    Anbara Salam on the HMS Terror, arctic voyages, and writing a novel about exploring the depths

    October 8, 2025  By Anbara Salam
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    Some Musings on Arthur Conan Doyle's Interest in Spiritualism

    Kiri Callaghan has some thoughts.

    October 8, 2025  By Kiri Callaghan
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    How My Childhood Demonic
    Doll Turned Me Into a
    Lifelong Horror Fan

    "I have a theory that many horror aficionados were anxious, scaredy-cat kids like me."

    October 7, 2025  By Laura Venita Green
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    Bad Boys with Bikes:
    A Brief Appreciation of Queer Biking Culture

    "[T]he oldest continuous gay rights organization in the US is, in fact, a motorcycle club."

    October 7, 2025  By Lev AC Rosen
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    In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney

    60 years after the publication of Capote's masterpiece, one detail evokes the history of homophobic crimes and shameful excuses, then and now

    October 3, 2025  By Carsten Andresen
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    Nice Guys with Lethal Weapons: The Influential Style of Shane Black, Our Last Noir Director

    Nick Kolakowski on the Settings, Shane-Black-isms, and Signature Leitmotifs of a Long Cinematic Career

    October 1, 2025  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Let's Do the Crime Warp: Keith Roysdon Makes The Case for Keeping Settings Vintage in Contemporary Productions

    "[C]rime stories produced in contemporary times but set in the past are just as enticing and have the additional benefit of hindsight."

    October 1, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Considers the Strange Perambulations of Writing Inspiration

    On approaching the truth obliquely and paying attention to resonance across experiences

    September 26, 2025  By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
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