• Features

    The Perks of Living in a Haunted House

    Every writer communes with ghosts. If you can start from childhood, all the better.

    October 29, 2019  By Erica Wright
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    20 Essential Films That Blur the Line Between Horror and Noir

    Exploring the cinema of darkness, light, and terrifying shadows.

    October 29, 2019  By Zach Vasquez
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    5 Scary Movies with Invaluable Lessons for Crime Writers

    Learning to write suspense, one scary movie at a time.

    October 29, 2019  By Lisa Black
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    7 Crime Tropes We Really Could Do Without

    It's time for a genre full of cliches to clean up its act.

    October 28, 2019  By Abigail Tarttelin
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    The KGB's Surprisingly Effective Plan to Exile Solzhenitsyn

    Inside the plan to turn the Soviet Union's most dangerous dissident into the West's least popular defector.

    October 28, 2019  By Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
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    My First Day As a Crime Scene Cleaner

    On Hauntings, Murder, and the Terrifying Blankness of Erasure

    October 28, 2019  By J. W. Ocker
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    How to Write Crime Fiction Set in the Near Future

    "It isn’t so much about what’s possible, but what’s plausible."

    October 28, 2019  By Steven James
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    October's Best Debut Novels

    Unreliable Memories, Runaway Gamines, and Haunted Coastlines

    October 25, 2019  By CrimeReads 
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    We Need Noir—Because the Truth Is Dark, Messy, and Sometimes Ugly

    Steph Cha looks at the divides of the crime writing community.

    October 25, 2019  By Steph Cha
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    Attica Locke: "My unconscious is a better writer than I am."

    The Texas crime author on the legacy of history, the resurgence of prejudice, and the meaning of forgiveness.

    October 25, 2019  By Molly Odintz
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