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    How To Turn Your Happy Place Into a Setting for A Psychological Thriller

    How To Turn Your Happy Place Into a Setting for A Psychological Thriller

    "Knowing a place inside and out means I can write a page-turner about it."

    By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | July 21, 2021

    In These Six Thrillers, The Natural World Is a Character, Not Just a Setting

    In These Six Thrillers, The Natural World Is a Character, Not Just a Setting

    Novels that explore the great (and sometimes terrifying) outdoors.

    By Elisabeth de Mariaffi | July 20, 2021

    Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?

    Which Psychological Thrillers Should You Read This Month?

    Rounding up the month's best in suspense.

    By Lisa Levy | July 16, 2021

    The Most <strike>Ridiculous</strike> ahem, <em>Memorable</em> Serial Killers in Literature

    The Most Ridiculous ahem, Memorable Serial Killers in Literature

    Grady Hendrix reads an unhealthy number of murder books. Here are some of the most absurd(ly entertaining).

    By Grady Hendrix | July 16, 2021

    For One Writer, Rediscovering the Novels of Dick Francis Was the Answer to a Personal Crisis and a Mysterious Illness

    For One Writer, Rediscovering the Novels of Dick Francis Was the Answer to a Personal Crisis and a Mysterious Illness

    John Fram was at work on his second novel when a strange illness knocked him down. A chance encounter with some wildly popular horse racing mysteries helped get him right. But how?

    By John Fram | July 15, 2021

    Seven Books That Will Help Teach You How to Write a Crime Novel

    Seven Books That Will Help Teach You How to Write a Crime Novel

    An education in crime, one book at a time.

    By Elaine Murphy | July 14, 2021

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    Great Books That Are Secretly Science Fiction

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    Terror, horror and noir: they came from the small screen...

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    The Strange Story of Orson Welles' Lost Film, <em>Mr. Arkadin</em>

    The Strange Story of Orson Welles' Lost Film, Mr. Arkadin

    The 1955 film was supposed to be Welles' masterpiece. Or maybe it was just a lark. Or a KGB-funded money laundering enterprise.

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    Amnesia in Literature and Film

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    Unreliable narrators and mysteries of memory ratchet up the suspense in remarkable ways.

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