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    10 of the Best Horror Novels to Read in the Summer Sun

    10 of the Best Horror Novels to Read in the Summer Sun

    Kate Collins on the special joys of reading deeply unsettling books in the summer months.

    By Kate Collins | July 12, 2023

    New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

    New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

    Dwyer Murphy on ten modern classics and an enduring question: what's your Dunkin' order?

    By Dwyer Murphy | July 12, 2023

    Crossing the Streams: Novels That Will Thrill and Chill!

    Crossing the Streams: Novels That Will Thrill and Chill!

    10 classic thriller stories with supernatural elements

    By Philip Fracassi | July 12, 2023

    Hot Pursuit: The Brief Rise of 1970s Hixploitation Cinema

    Hot Pursuit: The Brief Rise of 1970s Hixploitation Cinema

    Scott Von Doviak on the drive-in movie culture that captured a yearning for fast cars on dusty roads.

    By Scott Von Doviak | July 11, 2023

    Five Great Books from the Borderlands of Mystery, Horror, and the Psychological Thriller

    Five Great Books from the Borderlands of Mystery, Horror, and the Psychological Thriller

    Scott Adlerberg on masterpieces of the uncanny, marvelous, and strange

    By Scott Adlerberg | July 11, 2023

    Over the Edge: Cliffs, Coasts and Liminal Spaces in Crime Fiction

    Over the Edge: Cliffs, Coasts and Liminal Spaces in Crime Fiction

    Sarah Hilary on great moments in coastal noir

    By Sarah Hilary | July 11, 2023

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    Dying Onstage: Performance, Theater, and Deception in Classic Murder Mysteries

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    By CrimeReads | July 10, 2023

    How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

    How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

    Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
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    By Ebs Burnough | July 10, 2023

    Honoring a Fictional Lineage of Women Detectives

    Honoring a Fictional Lineage of Women Detectives

    From Harriet the Spy, to Hornclaw, a look at six iconic female detectives.

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    The Best Psychological Thrillers of July

    The Best Psychological Thrillers of July

    Sizzling suspense for the summer season

    By Molly Odintz | July 7, 2023

    The Hot Spot: The Making of a Sweaty Neo-Noir with a Soundtrack That Stands as an American Masterpiece

    The Hot Spot: The Making of a Sweaty Neo-Noir with a Soundtrack That Stands as an American Masterpiece

    Dennis Hopper had a vision for the 1990 film, and it involved Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and some strange movie magic.

    By David Masciotra | July 7, 2023

    The Aesthetics of Noir: Ed Brubaker on His Latest Crime Graphic Novel, 'Night Fever'

    The Aesthetics of Noir: Ed Brubaker on His Latest Crime Graphic Novel, 'Night Fever'

    The writer, once again pairing with longtime collaborators Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips, discusses his bizarre, mesmerizing new noir masterpiece

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    How To Balance Between Imagination and Facts

    How To Balance Between Imagination and Facts

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    The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'

    The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'

    In 1902, Captain Robert Peattie was attacked aboard the Leicester Castle by a disgruntled sailor, who then killed the ship’s 2nd mate before escaping with two others on a flimsy raft. The Captain assumed the men had soon drowned in the South Pacific until he was called to America, with four bullets still in his body, to identify a suspect living as an Arizona Sheriff. 

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