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90s Horror-Thrillers Created a New Generation of Would-Be Detectives

90s Horror-Thrillers Created a New Generation of Would-Be Detectives

Or, how Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer restored the mystery to slashers.

By Vincent Ralph | October 19, 2023

How Do Cold Case Investigators Identify A Body When DNA Testing Is Not Possible?

How Do Cold Case Investigators Identify A Body When DNA Testing Is Not Possible?

On naming the nameless when many identity markers have faded.

By Laurah Norton | October 18, 2023

What Is the Legacy of Walter Hill?

What Is the Legacy of Walter Hill?

Hill’s gritty films mix westerns, crime and, improbably, musicals.

By Keith Roysdon | October 18, 2023

Safe Places: On Writing Books for Teens about Teen Issues

Safe Places: On Writing Books for Teens about Teen Issues

"These stories find continuing relevance by tackling issues and themes common to teens across generations."

By Kellie M. Parker | October 18, 2023

100 years of Supernatural Searching

100 years of Supernatural Searching

Or, what the 1920s teach us about grief, fraud, and spiritualism.

By Anbara Salam | October 17, 2023

From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts

From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts

"I realized something that was huge but also completely grounding: Whatever format it takes, a story is a story."

By Heather Hach | October 17, 2023

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Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre Fiction

By Mandy McHugh | October 17, 2023

A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and History

By Nora Fussner | October 16, 2023

Lou Berney On The Immense Appeal of Ordinary Characters

By Lou Berney | October 13, 2023

The Brief, Bloody Story of Los Angeles’s Own “Bonnie & Clyde”

The Brief, Bloody Story of Los Angeles’s Own “Bonnie & Clyde”

In 1930, two young robbers captured the public's imagination.

By James T. Bartlett | October 12, 2023

The Mystery of Memory and Identity

The Mystery of Memory and Identity

Caitlin Starling on crafting a doppelgänger horror story around the idea of memory loss.

By Caitlin Starling | October 12, 2023

10 Years Later,

10 Years Later, "Prisoners" Eerily Predicted Our Current Moment

Revisiting Denis Villeneuve's bleak portrait of fear and fantasy

By Zack Budryk | October 11, 2023

How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the

How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the "Literary Thriller"

Jean Kwok asks authors how they approach reader and artistic demands.

By Jean Kwok | October 11, 2023

Sarah Weinman on Helen Garner and the Ongoing Conversations of True Crime

Sarah Weinman on Helen Garner and the Ongoing Conversations of True Crime

In This House of Grief Garner "takes the act of bearing witness to new levels."

By Sarah Weinman | October 10, 2023

“A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

“A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

"Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."

By Sam Rebelein | October 10, 2023

America’s Obsession with Asylums

America’s Obsession with Asylums

Or, How Visiting an Abandoned Lunatic Asylum Laid the Foundation for a Young Adult Novel

By Tracy Hewitt Meyer | October 10, 2023

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