• Features

    The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction

    Some authors are enchanted by arsenic. Others favor hemlock. And then there's the strychnine...

    November 13, 2023  By Valona Jones
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    What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of Yellowjackets

    Or, suspenseful novels to distract you from screaming "Who is pit girl?"

    November 13, 2023  By Margot Harrison
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    Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson

    Hand's new novel, 'A Haunting on the Hill,' is the first authorized continuation of Shirley Jackson's iconic work.

    November 10, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Love Behind Bars: On the Complicated World of Incarcerated Romance

    The world of prison relationships shows that love is possible, even under the hardest of circumstances

    November 10, 2023  By Elizabeth Greenwood
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    The Best Locked Room Mystery You've Probably Never Heard Of

    In 1944, "Hake Talbot" published a strange mystery novel that would soon earn itself a cult following.

    November 10, 2023  By Rupert Holmes
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    The Dalton Gang's Final, Doomed Heists in the Twilight of the Old West

    They were the last in a line of bandits. Their final days were bloody, nasty, and snakebit.

    November 10, 2023  By Tom Clavin
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    Rhys Bowen on Using Real Experiences As Inspiration

    Keeping a long series fresh can be tricky, so it's good to have led a long and quirky life.

    November 10, 2023  By Rhys Bowen
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    Killing the Rich: Why Privilege Has Always Been at the Heart of the Whodunnit

    Andreina Cordani on why we’re still fascinated by tales of Death at the Manor

    November 9, 2023  By Andreina Cordani
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    Psychology Is Important For Motivation, But Your Characters Need More Than Diagnoses

    "Evil and malice can exist without a backstory or a character-defining pathology. We do stupid shit because we are people, and people do stupid shit."

    November 9, 2023  By Jeremy T. Wilson
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    On Horror and Humanity’s Enduring Love Affair with Fear

    "Fear isolates what truly matters to us"

    November 9, 2023  By Alexander James
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