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Seven of Crime Fiction's Most Terrifying Marriages

Seven of Crime Fiction's Most Terrifying Marriages

The complex, twisted literature of "till death do us part"

By Gina LaManna | September 16, 2019

Why We Will Always Love

Why We Will Always Love "The Masque of the Red Death"

Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Masterpiece

By S.D. Sykes | September 16, 2019

50 Years Ago, <em>Scooby Doo</em> Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 13, 2019

Extreme Religion and Fiction’s Most Chilling Believers

Extreme Religion and Fiction’s Most Chilling Believers

Thrillers that take a look at the twisted extremes of faith and fervor.

By Lizzy Barber | September 13, 2019

How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

By Eleni Theodoropoulos | September 13, 2019

The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

By John Copenhaver | September 13, 2019

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Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer

By John Vercher | September 12, 2019

It's Time to Read More Spy Fiction By Women, About Women

By Susan Elia MacNeal | September 12, 2019

A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

By Tori Telfer | September 12, 2019

In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

Or, how to write villains with empathy (but no excuses)

By Nathan Makaryk | September 12, 2019

The Crime Novels of WWII

The Crime Novels of WWII

How Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Hughes, and other crime icons addressed (or didn't) the war in crime fiction.

By James R. Benn | September 11, 2019

4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories

4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories

On character being more affecting than plot

By Thomas Kies | September 11, 2019

Tying in History, Mystery, and the Supernatural

Tying in History, Mystery, and the Supernatural

Advice for writers on how to meaningfully interweave the real, the unreal, and the unknown

By Erin Lindsey | September 11, 2019

The Gothic Suspense of a Crime Scene

The Gothic Suspense of a Crime Scene

"As I take a tour of a 100-year-old Tudor stripped of its guts and haunted by ghosts, I know I have no business being here."

By D. M. Pulley | September 11, 2019

The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

Because what is love if not a complete mystery?

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 10, 2019

8 Novels About Academics Behaving Disgracefully

8 Novels About Academics Behaving Disgracefully

These campus thrillers provide an education in suspense

By T.M. Logan | September 10, 2019

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