• Horror

    The Dark Corners of the Night

    Meg Gardiner

    "Winter, two a.m., and a Santa Ana wind was scouring Los Angeles."

    January 6, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    On Writing Horror While Preparing to Donate A Kidney

    "Dan came out of the hospital with a healthy kidney, while I’d come out with three and a half thousand words of notes."

    December 16, 2019  By Alison Moore
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    Every Stolen Breath

    Kimberly Gabriel

    "During advisory at the end of the day, while Mr. Mater drones on about a student council food drive and tryouts for the upcoming musical, I count three news teams on the school’s front lawn, waiting to ambush me the second I walk out the doors."

    December 11, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    How Women Authors Are Reshaping the Horror Genre

    "The boogeyman in the closet isn’t an amorphous shape in the dark—It’s someone we know and trust."

    December 10, 2019  By Damien Angelica Walters
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    A Hard World for Little Things: 10 Dark Stories of Kids in Peril

    It's an old story, and among the most powerful we can tell.

    December 6, 2019  By Zach Vasquez
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    The Mass Atonement of Salem, Massachusetts

    On finally feeling accepted despite social difference, in the unlikeliest of places

    December 5, 2019  By Alice Blanchard
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    Psycho Invented the Spoiler Alert as We Know It

    A very personal history of trying to prevent spoiling cinema's first great shocking twist (and yes, there are spoilers ahead)

    November 19, 2019  By Jesse Pasternack
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    Paul Tremblay on the Absurdities of Modern Life

    The cult horror writer talks crime fiction, narcolepsy, and why the world needs a YA novel about Charles Manson

    November 14, 2019  By Max Booth III
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    The Most Terrifying Home Invasions in Fiction

    The call is coming from inside the house.

    November 12, 2019  By Michael Seidlinger
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    When You Write Your Worst Fears in Your Novel—And Then They Come True

    When fictional tragedies materialize in real-life.

    November 12, 2019  By Amber Cowie
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