• Essays

    Do We Stick Around after Death?

    What Personal Experience Has–and Hasn’t–Taught Me

    September 10, 2024  By Beth Castrodale
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    Empathy and Crime Fiction: How Do You Make Readers Root for the “Unrootable”?

    Steve Hamilton on the magic of fiction.

    September 9, 2024  By Steve Hamilton
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    Drugs and Distance: Taking on the Opioid Crisis in Thriller Form

    Betsy Hartmann on finding the craft and the purpose.

    September 9, 2024  By Betsy Hartmann
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    Are You the Scorpion or the Frog? Horror as Social Commentary

    "[H]orror is drawn from our connections with each other, and makes us reconsider the roles we play in each other’s lives."

    September 5, 2024  By Vincent Tirado
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    Horror, Hauntings, and HGTV

    "I admit I find the home improvement shows far scarier than the paranormal ones."

    September 5, 2024  By Sarah Pinsker
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    Reinstating Mystery to the Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde

    The case for considering the classic story as crime fiction

    September 5, 2024  By Tim Major
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    Templates, Not Fantasies: Complicated Final Girls and Why We Need Them

    If we can see ourselves reflected in the Final Girl, we can learn from her how to survive

    September 4, 2024  By Cheryl Isaacs
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    Why Thrillers Matter

    "[W]hen heroes defeat villains...they also defeat the worst in ourselves."

    September 4, 2024  By Mike Maden
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    Ava Glass: Me and the Spies

    The author of the Emma Makepeace novels recounts her unusual (and ambiguous) history of dealing with spies.

    September 4, 2024  By Ava Glass
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    Why Our Fascination with Urban Legends Will Never Die

    "What if, just this once, the legend is real?"

    August 30, 2024  By Vincent Ralph
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