• Horror

    The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home

    Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink

    "Here is what the sea smells like."

    March 25, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    A Sense of Dread Is the Key to Dark Fiction—These Five Women Authors Have Mastered It

    Five short stories that conjure up an immediate and inescapable feeling that something bad is about to happen.

    March 24, 2020  By Rachel Harrison
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    The Evolution of the "Mildly Autistic Super-Detective"

    A trope finds its way toward authenticity.

    March 11, 2020  By Zack Budryk
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    She Lover of Death

    Boris Akunin

    "She spent several hours preparing for her meeting with Harlequin and left the house in good time, in order to make her first gala promenade through the streets of Moscow without hurrying and give the city a chance to admire its new inhabitant."

    March 3, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    February 27, 2020  By Darcy Coates
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    The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

    Stories of waiting, of hoping, and of half-lives.

    February 13, 2020  By Kathleen Donohoe
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    'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?

    HBO's new Stephen King adaptation plays a complex genre game.

    February 7, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Books to Read When Winter Isolation Sets in and Cabin Fever Takes Over

    It's cold outside. Stay indoors and open a good thriller.

    January 30, 2020  By Greg Bastianelli
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    The Rabbit Hunter

    Lars Kepler

    "Sofia makes her way quickly along the wall and past the stairs, until she reaches a narrow closet door."

    January 10, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    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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