• Essays

    Discovering a Lost Classic of 1970s Crime Fiction

    Ralph Dennis was one of the best, and most neglected crime writers of the decade—and he's due for a revival.

    September 18, 2019  By Lee Goldberg
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    The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

    How Agatha Christie and her Golden Age cohorts came back into fashion, and why that's reviving the traditional mystery.

    September 17, 2019  By Martin Edwards
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    Neon No Man’s Land and Sleaze Noir: On The Underseen Brilliance of Vice Squad

    Celebrating a lost 1980s neo-noir classic

    September 17, 2019  By Zach Vasquez
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    What Writers Can Learn from Dante—Seriously, From Dante

    Writing is a lonely, anxiety-inducing business. Dante can help.

    September 16, 2019  By Matthew Pearl
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    Seven of Crime Fiction's Most Terrifying Marriages

    The complex, twisted literature of "till death do us part"

    September 16, 2019  By Gina LaManna
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    Why We Will Always Love "The Masque of the Red Death"

    Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Masterpiece

    September 16, 2019  By S.D. Sykes
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    50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

    An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.

    September 13, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

    September 13, 2019  By Eleni Theodoropoulos
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    The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

    How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

    September 13, 2019  By John Copenhaver
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    In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

    Or, how to write villains with empathy (but no excuses)

    September 12, 2019  By Nathan Makaryk
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