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    A Past Steeped in Shadows: Seven Historical Horror Novels Inspired by True Events

    A Past Steeped in Shadows: Seven Historical Horror Novels Inspired by True Events

    C.J. Cooke Recommends Reclaimed Tales of Plague, Witch Trials, Strange Deaths, and More

    By C.J. Cooke | October 16, 2025

    Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

    Chris Kraus on How Crime Writing Can Be an Entry To a Shattered Community

    The Author of “The Four Spent the Day Together” on Researching the Nagamo Trail Murder

    By Chris Kraus | October 16, 2025

    Doubles and Doppelgangers in a World in Crisis

    Doubles and Doppelgangers in a World in Crisis

    Nicholas Binge asks, what's in a body?

    By Nicholas Binge | October 15, 2025

    Teens Turned into Detectives: Six Novels Featuring Young and Amateur Sleuths

    Teens Turned into Detectives: Six Novels Featuring Young and Amateur Sleuths

    Tom Ryan Recommends Donna Tartt, Marisha Pessl, Mark Haddon, and More

    By Tom Ryan | October 15, 2025

    Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After

    Why Romance and Horror Make a Happily Ever After

    "Horror raises the stakes while romance deepens the meaning"

    By Trilina Pucci | October 15, 2025

    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 14, 2025

    Best Reviewed
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    • Annie Proulx Stories: New and Selected
    • The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game
    • The Telephone: A New History
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    • O Now!
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    • The Key Biscayne Affair
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    Hannah Beer On The Costs and Consequences of Celebrity Culture

    By Hannah Beer | October 14, 2025

    Five Horror Films Set in Hospitals

    By Caitlin Starling | October 14, 2025

    Your guide to transportation horror-cide

    By John Hornor Jacobs | October 10, 2025

    Sophie Hannah On How She Writes a Poirot Novel

    Sophie Hannah On How She Writes a Poirot Novel

    “You want to be able to almost flaunt the clues and draw the reader's attention to them, safe in the knowledge that no one will actually work it out.” 

    By Alex Dueben | October 10, 2025

    Exploring the Use of Illustrations and Artwork in Horror Novels

    Exploring the Use of Illustrations and Artwork in Horror Novels

    Or, a picture is worth a thousand words

    By Kristin Loesch | October 9, 2025

    What Fictional Violence Teaches Us About the Real Thing (and Vice Versa)

    What Fictional Violence Teaches Us About the Real Thing (and Vice Versa)

    After experiencing a brutal attack by a complete stranger, Jennifer Fawcett had to rethink everything she knew about writing violence

    By Jennifer Fawcett | October 9, 2025

    Kaley Cuoco is in a third crime show!

    Kaley Cuoco is in a third crime show!

    "Vanished" premieres in February of next year

    By Olivia Rutigliano | October 8, 2025

    Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

    Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

    "[S]ustainability and locality are the hallmarks of intelligence. So why are we looking for worlds on fire?"

    By Daniel H. Wilson | October 8, 2025

    The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery

    The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery

    Anbara Salam on the HMS Terror, arctic voyages, and writing a novel about exploring the depths

    By Anbara Salam | October 8, 2025

    How My Childhood Demonic <br>Doll Turned Me Into a <br>Lifelong Horror Fan

    How My Childhood Demonic
    Doll Turned Me Into a
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    "I have a theory that many horror aficionados were anxious, scaredy-cat kids like me."

    By Laura Venita Green | October 7, 2025

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