• Features

    Extreme Religion and Fiction’s Most Chilling Believers

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

    September 13, 2019  By Lizzy Barber
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    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.

    September 13, 2019  By Eleni Theodoropoulos
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    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.

    September 13, 2019  By John Copenhaver
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    Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer

    On learning to write thrillers about social issues from comic books.

    September 12, 2019  By John Vercher
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    It's Time to Read More Spy Fiction By Women, About Women

    10 novels that explore the world of women spies in the World Wars

    September 12, 2019  By Susan Elia MacNeal
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    A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

    Criminal Broads Presents: An interview with Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites

    September 12, 2019  By Tori Telfer
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    In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham

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

    September 12, 2019  By Nathan Makaryk
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    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.

    September 11, 2019  By James R. Benn
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    4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories

    On character being more affecting than plot

    September 11, 2019  By Thomas Kies
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    Tying in History, Mystery, and the Supernatural

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

    September 11, 2019  By Erin Lindsey
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