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    Why We Love Looking for Hidden Symbols—In Thrillers and In Real Life

    Why We Love Looking for Hidden Symbols—In Thrillers and In Real Life

    Thriller authors discuss the power of literary treasure hunting.

    By Ellen Crosby | December 13, 2019

    The Elements of the Haunted House: A Primer

    The Elements of the Haunted House: A Primer

    Or, How to Build a Haunted House Mystery from the Ground Up

    By Emily Littlejohn | December 12, 2019

    Three Books that Explore the Violence of Women’s Appetites

    Three Books that Explore the Violence of Women’s Appetites

    The world is creepy."">"Why shouldn’t there be something creepy in us?
    The world is creepy."

    By Katie Gutierrez | December 11, 2019

    I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About

    I Wrote the Kind of Character I Wanted Most to Read About

    Twenty years later, he's still surprising me.

    By Gar Anthony Haywood | December 11, 2019

    Ice Skating as an Education for Writing Crime Fiction

    Ice Skating as an Education for Writing Crime Fiction

    It looks blithe and glamorous, but it's one of the most dangerous and cutthroat activities imaginable

    By J. D. Griffo | December 11, 2019

    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

    Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

    By Gary Phillips | December 10, 2019

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    The Crime Novels of Christmas

    By Paul French | December 9, 2019

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    By Dave Seminara | December 9, 2019

    The Assassination of Thomas Doughty by the Brigand Sir Francis Drake

    By S.J. Parris | December 9, 2019

    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    A Brief History of Brief Crime Books

    From the beginning, the novella has always gripped our attention.

    By Manning Wolfe | December 9, 2019

    The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

    The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

    From moral disruptor, to crazy b----, to the anti-heroine of our century: an ode to femmes fatales through the ages.

    By Halley Sutton | December 5, 2019

    The Mass Atonement of Salem, Massachusetts

    The Mass Atonement of Salem, Massachusetts

    On finally feeling accepted despite social difference, in the unlikeliest of places

    By Alice Blanchard | December 5, 2019

    On the Benefits of Building a Book Series Out of a Community of Characters

    On the Benefits of Building a Book Series Out of a Community of Characters

    Changing protagonists can set a writer—and a reader—free.

    By Allen Eskens | December 5, 2019

    The Art of Interviewing Subjects—And Actually Getting To the Truth

    The Art of Interviewing Subjects—And Actually Getting To the Truth

    Tom Rosenstiel on journalism, fiction, and different kinds of truth.

    By Tom Rosenstiel | December 4, 2019

    Wilkie Collins and the Prison of Marriage

    Wilkie Collins and the Prison of Marriage

    Collins was a pioneer of domestic suspense—also, a hypocrite.

    By Radha Vatsal | December 4, 2019

    Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War

    Blowback: Late 1960s and ’70s Pulp and Popular Fiction about the Vietnam War

    When soldiers returned home, a new wave of crime fiction captured the trauma—and the moral abyss.

    By Andrew Nette | December 3, 2019

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