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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: October 2022

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: October 2022

Featuring new books from Ian Rankin, Ava Barry, and more.

By CrimeReads | October 27, 2022

Horror Movie Criticism Perfect for Halloween

Horror Movie Criticism Perfect for Halloween

What's better than watching a horror movie? Reading a book about watching horror movies!

By Molly Odintz | October 27, 2022

Why I Write Feminist Fairy Tales

Why I Write Feminist Fairy Tales

Or, how I gave up on "having it all" and found a new truth in writing darkness.

By Menna Van Praag | October 27, 2022

14 New and Upcoming Books Featuring Witches

14 New and Upcoming Books Featuring Witches

Channel your feminist rage, decolonize your magick, and heal your community with these bewitching reads.

By Molly Odintz | October 26, 2022

9 Works of Dark Humor Perfect for Halloween

9 Works of Dark Humor Perfect for Halloween

Humor "serves as a crucial utensil to consume grief or fear or humiliation piece by piece, lest it consumes us."

By Claudia Lux | October 26, 2022

The Very Human Horrors of Paul Tremblay

The Very Human Horrors of Paul Tremblay

In Tremblay's fiction, people are forced to reckon with terrifying new realities while trying to hang onto their humanity.

By Brenna Ehrlich | October 26, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself: On The Origins of the Devil

By La Carmina | October 26, 2022

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night

By CrimeReads | October 25, 2022

W. Scott Poole: How Horror Reveals the Nation's Deepest (and Darkest) Beliefs

By Lisa Levy | October 25, 2022

A Writer Confronts the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

A Writer Confronts the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

Or, why I was afraid to bring my daughter to Alabama

By Ousmane Power-Green | October 25, 2022

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | October 24, 2022

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s Cult Classic, <em>House of Psychotic Women</em>, Ten Years Later

Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s Cult Classic, House of Psychotic Women, Ten Years Later

“Every woman who enjoys horror films has at some point felt the need to explain herself.”

By Elizabeth Horkley | October 24, 2022

5 Female Demi-Gods of Horror

5 Female Demi-Gods of Horror

These authors "will trick, treat, terrify, traumatize, and most definitely thrill you."

By Nuzo Onoh | October 24, 2022

The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

Or, searching for queer culture in the era of hard-boiled fiction.

By Lev AC Rosen | October 24, 2022

Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

Crimes that are both everyday and yet brutal seem to be front and center only in a small subset of the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. Is that taste, craft—or something that should make us all a little uncomfortable?

By Christopher Chambers | October 21, 2022

The Devil’s in the Details: 'Reservoir Dogs' at 30

The Devil’s in the Details: 'Reservoir Dogs' at 30

30 years later, Bruce Riordan remembers the early showing of 'Reservoir Dogs' at the Vista, and how it changed everything he thought he knew about trial preparation—and storytelling.

By Bruce Riordan | October 21, 2022

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