• Essays

    Why Our Most Engrossing Mysteries Are Underwater

    Kevin Sites on the rapture of the deep

    August 9, 2023  By Kevin Sites
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    Catherine Ryan Howard
    On the Missing Women
    of 1990s Ireland

    "While we were growing up, a faceless phantom snatched multiple women and no one did anything about it at all."

    August 7, 2023  By Catherine Ryan Howard
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    On The Ethics of Taking Writing Inspiration from True Crime

    "How do we ensure we do not become titillating in our re-telling?...And how do we give killers a human face without glorifying them?"

    August 4, 2023  By Victoria Selman
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    The Grifter in Popular Culture

    Sabine Durrant on why we're so consistently captivated by the tales of modern grifters and scammers.

    August 3, 2023  By Sabine Durrant
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    Gothic vs. Horror: It's Time to Settle the Debate

    "Horror’s main objective is to disturb the reader, to scare, and to repulse...Gothic is a gentle creep of dread."

    August 3, 2023  By Shannon Morgan
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    On Final Girls And The Sums of Their Parts

    "The thing about being a child—a Black girl, at that—and loving horror movies is that you see very little of yourself on the screen."

    August 2, 2023  By Joelle Wellington
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    M. W. Craven On The Subtle Charms of Snakes

    Appreciating the fearless friends of the serpent world.

    August 2, 2023  By M. W. Craven
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    Lynn Hightower on Writing A Heroine with Hearing Loss

    "It was going to be blatantly obvious that I knew exactly what hearing loss is like, because I live it."

    August 2, 2023  By Lynn Hightower
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    Peter Heller: My Mother the Gumshoe

    The author remembers his mother, the private investigator, and the first case she took on in the wilds of Connecticut.

    August 1, 2023  By Peter Heller
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    How Megan Davis Went From Whistleblower to Crime Novelist

    "The best crime stories come from insiders, but as we know from crime fiction, being an insider is a dangerous game."

    August 1, 2023  By Megan Davis
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