• Essays

    'She Has Haunted Me:' Virginia Woolf, Mothers and Me

    On Grief, Memory, Fiction, and Motherhood

    August 19, 2020  By Maggie Humm
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    The Texas Terrors of My Childhood Imagination

    How a chance sighting of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster kickstarted a lifetime of writing horror.

    August 18, 2020  By Christopher Rice
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    The Crime Fiction of New Zealand

    A new generation of New Zealand authors is continuing a tradition of mystery.

    August 17, 2020  By Paul French
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    How an Indiana Preacher's Son Transformed into a Western Lawman—and a Killer

    Ed Cantrell went to Wyoming and cast himself in the mould of Western gunslinging icons. Then, he was charged with murder.

    August 14, 2020  By Rone Tempest
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    The Unbearable Freedom of Feral Children

    Or, We Are All Exactly as Animal as Each Other

    August 14, 2020  By Maria Romasco-Moore
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    My First Thriller: David Morrell

    How the 'First Blood' author went from being a graduate student writing Faulkner imitations to reinventing the action novel.

    August 13, 2020  By Rick Pullen
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    Why Writing About Psychopaths Keeps Me Sane

    On the perverse delights and vengeful satisfactions of channeling our darkest impulses into fiction.

    August 13, 2020  By Nina Sadowsky
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    Faces on the Milk Cartons: The Lost Boys of Des Moines

    In the 1980s, three Iowa boys went missing. Their disappearances loomed large in my childhood, and have haunted me ever since.

    August 13, 2020  By Kali White
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    Maybe We Read Crime Fiction Because Deep Down, We All Know We're Complicit in Crime

    One author's theory for why we keep returning to crime.

    August 12, 2020  By John Galligan
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    What Drives Obsession in Fiction?

    A Psychologist's Pointers for Exploring Obsession and Infatuation in Crime Fiction

    August 12, 2020  By R. J. Jacobs
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