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

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

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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?

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

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