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Crafting the Real and Surreal in Eco-Horror
Nicholas Belardes on not turning away from unreal and mysterious occurrences in nature that can help us craft our stories
By
Nick Belardes
| July 29, 2024
Nev Fountain On Writing A Detective Novel About Fandom
"What are detectives but fans in their own way? People with a passionate interest in minutia?"
By
Nev Fountain
| July 29, 2024
That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip
It was the culmination in their longstanding feud about the existence of a psychic, occult world
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| July 26, 2024
We Need More Crime Fiction By Defense Attorneys
"[W]hat defenders do is slow, patient, grinding, and infected with uncertainty. We don’t have the whole story, and we never will."
By
Joshua Perry
| July 25, 2024
Meta-Morphoses: Crafting a Book-Within-the-Book in a Thriller
"[M]etafiction is a great tool for encouraging readers to question everything."
By
Lisa Kusel
| July 24, 2024
Peng Shepherd On Writing A Choose-You-Own-Adventure Speculative Mystery
"[W]hat if you actually could go back and fix your past mistakes? How would that change your life?"
By
Peng Shepherd
| July 23, 2024
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Ace Atkins On Writing A Crime Novel Steeped in the Blues
By
Ace Atkins
| July 23, 2024
Unmasking the ’Ndrangheta,
the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate You’ve Never Heard Of
By
Juliet Grames
| July 23, 2024
Unravelling the Mystery of Agatha Christie’s Country Retreat
By
Dean Jobb
| July 22, 2024
Is History Only For Historical Novels?
Five ways to use the past in contemporary crime fiction.
By
Connie Berry
| July 22, 2024
Memory, Subjectivity, and the Rashomon Effect
"Memory and perception are slippery things, and become all the more so when filtered back through the limitations of language."
By
Sarah Easter Collins
| July 19, 2024
The Critic Did It: Howard Spring Takes on The Detection Club
When he included spoilers in one of his columns, Spring earned the enmity of an entire generation of crime novelists
By
Curtis Evans
| July 19, 2024
Sarah Pearse On Crafting Atmospheric Suspense
"To effectively evoke an intense sense of atmosphere, I need to have spent a lot of time in the setting myself"
By
Sarah Pearse
| July 18, 2024
Sepia Model Murder, 1969: The Slaying of Bani Yelverton
Michael Gonzales on the unsolved murder of a trailblazing model and New York City fixture.
By
Michael Gonzales
| July 17, 2024
What Do Real Spies Think of James Bond?
"[W]hat you see on the screen is often the antithesis of good intelligence work"
By
Alma Katsu
| July 16, 2024
How Gore Vidal's 1968 Blockbuster Novel About a Trans Woman Took Aim at the Patriarchy
Revisiting 'Myra Breckinridge'
By
David Masciotra
| July 16, 2024
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