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    Crafting the Real and Surreal in Eco-Horror

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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    Is History Only For Historical Novels?

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    Memory, Subjectivity, and the Rashomon Effect

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    "Memory and perception are slippery things, and become all the more so when filtered back through the limitations of language."

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    The Critic Did It: Howard Spring Takes on The Detection Club

    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

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    Sarah Pearse On Crafting Atmospheric Suspense

    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"

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    Sepia Model Murder, 1969: The Slaying of Bani Yelverton

    Sepia Model Murder, 1969: The Slaying of Bani Yelverton

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    How Gore Vidal's 1968 Blockbuster Novel About a Trans Woman Took Aim at the Patriarchy

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