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    Constructing a Fictional Serial Killer

    How California's most notorious killers helped inspire Omar Hussain's debut novel.

    April 10, 2025  By Omar Hussain
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    Small Towns and Murder Mysteries: An Enduring Fascination

    Kelly Mullen on Villisca, Iowa and the The Villisca Axe Murders

    April 10, 2025  By Kelly Mullen
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    Lost Grandeur: Decaying Settings in Fiction         

    "There’s just something about the feeling of a place that has been deeply neglected..."

    April 9, 2025  By C.J. Dotson
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    Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

    Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

    April 9, 2025  By Zee Carlstrom
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    Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

    "[E]very word is fighting for space on the page and on the screen...I get in, I say what I need to, and I get out."

    April 9, 2025  By Jenny Bartoy
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    Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

    "I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

    April 8, 2025  By Molly Harper
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    10 Great Haunted House Novels Full of Atmosphere and Secrets

    Yigit Turhan on some of the eeriest novels ever written.

    April 8, 2025  By Yiğit Turhan
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    Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America

    "There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US fiction."

    April 8, 2025  By Tariq Ashkanani
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    Remembering the Bleak, Beautiful Poetry of Ken Bruen's Noir

    Bruen wrote unflinchingly of the darkest parts of society, and his Jack Taylor series was the epitome of noir style.

    April 7, 2025  By Scott Montgomery
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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