• Essays

    Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

    Decades before Mangione, there was Metesky, the "Mad Bomber."

    February 14, 2025  By Michael Cannell
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    Why Posh London Is Just as Good A Setting For Mysteries as Any Gritty Side Street

    Scratch beneath the stucco of Belgravia, London’s most upmarket residential district, and dark secrets lurk.

    February 14, 2025  By Orlando Murrin
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    How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century

    A mystery writer's guide to cutting your characters off from the world in believable ways.

    February 13, 2025  By Laura McCluskey
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    How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

    Kate Alice Marshall on dreams, memories, and what happens when the real world can't be trusted.

    February 12, 2025  By Kate Alice Marshall
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    Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

    The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.

    February 11, 2025  By Nathan Ward
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    Asking What If?: Mystery as Respite for the Anxious Mind

    On seeing "fears played out through narrative...[and] experiencing that fear within the safe embrace of a book."

    February 11, 2025  By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
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    Where Is Everybody?
    A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

    The greatest terror is reserved, not for death, but for a life alone

    February 11, 2025  By Philip Fracassi
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    Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

    Ande Pliego on the power of humor in horror and thrillers.

    February 10, 2025  By Ande Pliego
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    How a Surprise Visit to Bletchley Park Inspired a Modern-Day Mystery

    Henry Porter on an unexpected moment of inspiration.

    February 7, 2025  By Henry Porter
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    Conspiracy Theories and The Lure and Terror of Group-Think

    Alison Gaylin considers the long history of fraught falsehoods embraced as absolute truths

    February 6, 2025  By Alison Gaylin
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