• Essays

    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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    Asif Kapadia's New Film Merges Documentary and Cyberpunk Cinema to Sound a Warning

    David Masciotra on the genre-defying '2073'

    February 6, 2025  By David Masciotra
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    Spies as Storytellers: Crafting Aliases, Inventing People, and Weaving Tales from Information

    Suzanne Nelson on the history of storyteller spies in WWII.

    February 5, 2025  By Suzanne Nelson
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    Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Organ Transplantation and How to Explore Them in Thrillers

    Dr. Cristina LePort on medical thrillers.

    February 5, 2025  By Cristina LePort
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