• Suspense

    Why Body Horror Is Such an Evocative Tool in Storytelling

    "Body horror is powerful because it is personal."

    October 8, 2021  By Caitlin Starling
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    Books Focused on Opulent Wealth, Family Secrets & Suspense

    How Much Money Buys You An Alibi?

    October 7, 2021  By Georgina Cross
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    Small Towns, Big Secrets: Crime Fiction Set In Claustrophobic Communities

    8 novels in which a small town is the perfect incubator for some truly grisly secrets.

    October 6, 2021  By L. Alison Heller
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    Lee Child on the Invention of Fiction

    The first humans to make up stories may just have saved us all. Or not. It's hard to know for sure.

    October 5, 2021  By Lee Child
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    Sympathy for the de Vil: Reading Beyond Likability

    Readers shouldn't set too high a bar for fictional empathy—and authors shouldn't indulge in exaggerated excuses for their character's bad behavior.

    October 5, 2021  By John Copenhaver
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    Finding Inspiration in Vermont's 'Shirley Jackson and Donna Tartt Country'

    For gothic inspiration, Eric Rickstad looks to his own backyard—and to the works of Vermont's iconic authors.

    October 4, 2021  By Eric Rickstad
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    Publishing Is a Nightmare: 31 Horror Films about Writing, Reading, and the Book Business

    Fill your October with the horrors of literature.

    October 1, 2021  By Celia Mattison
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    12 Novels You Should Read This October

    New fiction from John le Carré, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, James Han Mattson, and more.

    October 1, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    How to Add a Layer of Fear to Your Fiction

    When it comes to getting the physiognomical effects of fear right, who cares why your characters are afraid. What matters is how they experience fear.

    October 1, 2021  By DiAnn Mills
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    I Write About Monsters Because I Fear Becoming One

    Or, what we talk about when we talk about monsters.

    September 30, 2021  By Catriona Ward
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