• Essays

    Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

    The Author of “The Four Spent the Day Together” on Researching the Nagamo Trail Murder

    October 16, 2025  By Chris Kraus
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    Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After

    "Horror raises the stakes while romance deepens the meaning"

    October 15, 2025  By Trilina Pucci
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    Hannah Beer On The Costs and Consequences of Celebrity Culture

    "[O]nce you have everything, what—or who—are you willing to sacrifice to maintain it?"

    October 14, 2025  By Hannah Beer
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    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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