• Essays

    The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin

    "Behind the terse style, there is a poetry to the ironies of Levin’s plots, and there is a brutality that emerges from his intricate imagination."

    September 15, 2023  By James Reich
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    Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer Novel

    Hughes' masterpiece was fresh, feminist, and ahead of its time.
    It's also extraordinarily chilling.

    September 15, 2023  By Laura Picklesimer
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    ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Forecast Our Future – If We’d Only Been Paying Attention

    Keith Roysdon on the strange prescience of Elia Kazan's 1957 film starring Andy Griffith.

    September 15, 2023  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Dark Humor of Millennial Crime Capers

    30-somethings can laugh in the face of anything—including death.

    September 14, 2023  By Alice Bell
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    When is a Character’s Dishonesty Justified?

    "[W]hen is it ethical...for characters to do a great right, by doing a little wrong?"

    September 14, 2023  By R. J. Jacobs
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    Writing a Domestic Survival Thriller

    On Marrying Life-or-Death Stakes with the Trials of Suburbia

    September 13, 2023  By Lee Kelly
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    When True Crime Meets Police Brutality

    True-crime accounts of someone killed by police shouldn’t be any different from other murder investigations, but they are.

    September 12, 2023  By Justine Barron
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    Celebrating the Iconic Suspense of Lois Duncan

    Lois Duncan’s horror and suspense books for young adults served as roadmaps to growing up, surviving trauma, and becoming our true selves.

    September 12, 2023  By Luisa Colón
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    Some Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Royal House of Windsor

    The scandals of the British royal family have made for excellent fodder for crime fiction.

    September 12, 2023  By Christine Wells
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    The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide

    The prolific and long-lived Phillpotts was Agatha Christie's neighbor and early reader. He was also a monster.

    September 11, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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