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How a News Story About a Man with Geckos in His Pants Prompted Rose Carlyle's New Thriller

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Was <em>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</em> Inspired by a Real Murder Case?

Was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Inspired by a Real Murder Case?

Robert Louis Stevenson was acquainted with Eugène Chantrelle, a seemingly-upstanding teacher who later killed his wife.

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7 Great Haunted House Novels Written by Women

7 Great Haunted House Novels Written by Women

Kelley Armstrong on her lifelong passion for a very particular kind of horror.

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How to Get Arrested by an FBI SWAT Team After Infiltrating the KKK

How to Get Arrested by an FBI SWAT Team After Infiltrating the KKK

Joe Moore spent years as a confidential human source penetrating a highly dangerous, violent KKK group in Florida. Now it was time to take them down.

By Joe Moore with Jon Land | October 2, 2024

The Hinterland Dreams of the Gothic Novel

The Hinterland Dreams of the Gothic Novel

"[G]othic fiction may best be defined not by examples or expectations, but intimately, intuitively, for how it makes us feel"

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Bog Is Love: The Rise of Bogcore

Bog Is Love: The Rise of Bogcore

The subversive antidote to cottagecore has seeped into the mainstream and shows no signs of receding

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We Inherit Our Ghosts: On Gothic Fiction and the Need to Remember

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