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The Most Haunting Settings in Crime Fiction

"I’m a fan of a more traditional setting...stormy weather, isolated places and the darkness that hides the evil from sight."

October 26, 2020  By Max Seeck
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Mixing Genres Is All About Messing With Structure

"Knowing what people are expecting allows you to subvert the trope. Expectation is its own red herring, built right into your reader."

October 22, 2020  By Stuart Turton
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There's a lot at *stake* when it comes to picking pop culture's best Dracula. *Count* them down with us.

October 21, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Edgar Allan Poe and and the Rise of the Modern City

"The Man of the Crowd" was arguably Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story. It's also one of his strangest.

October 20, 2020  By Scott Peeples
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Sapphic Chiller Double Feature

Gothic horror has long been a home for lesbian and queer women. These pairings of books and movies push the conversation forward.

October 20, 2020  By emily m. danforth
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The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of Freddy's Dead

If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?

October 9, 2020  By Paul Michael Anderson
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Thoroughly Modern Hauntings: How Ghost Stories Keep Finding New Ways to Scare Us

From The Ring to The Host, modern technology has only made horror stories scarier.

October 7, 2020  By Frazer Lee
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The Farm

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"'You’re already asleep,' Lettie said quietly."

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The Very Brief Heyday of Crime Beat Magazine

For two years in the 1990s, horror writer T.E.D. Klein edited the "newsmagazine of crime." Was Crime Beat ahead of its time or a sign of divisions to come?

September 9, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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Exorcisms: A Brief History of Banishing Demons

Exorcism, a once controversial rite, is as popular as ever. But the practice spans centuries, beliefs, and cultures.

September 8, 2020  By Joseph P. Laycock
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