• Suspense

    Eight Thrillers That Bring an Uncanny Slant to the Natural World

    "The setting of a horror tale needs to create a sense of unheimlich, with the reader every bit as nervous...as the characters."

    October 9, 2020  By C.J. Cooke
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    The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of Freddy's Dead

    If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?

    October 9, 2020  By Paul Michael Anderson
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    The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life

    "The con artist has a special gift for knowing what we want and giving it to us, then taking what they were after all along."

    October 8, 2020  By Lisa Unger
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    Memories of an Accidental Mystery Writer

    When Sherry Thomas added a little murder to her historical romances, she struck genre-mixing gold.

    October 8, 2020  By Sherry Thomas
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    Elsewhere

    Dean Koontz

    "The eerie ululation of coyotes on the hunt issued from the farther end of the canyon, and a scrim of cloud diminished the moon, so that the silvered yard grew tarnished."

    October 8, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This October

    Missing husbands, murdered trainers, and feminist revenge killers.

    October 7, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Thoroughly Modern Hauntings: How Ghost Stories Keep Finding New Ways to Scare Us

    From The Ring to The Host, modern technology has only made horror stories scarier.

    October 7, 2020  By Frazer Lee
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    The Nightworkers

    Brian Selfon

    "Family. Shecky Keenan once thought he’d never have one."

    October 7, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Searcher

    Tana French

    "Two days later, the kid comes back. Since the day has brightened up after a rainy start, Cal and his desk are back out in the garden."

    October 6, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Walking the Hybrid Tightrope with Romantic Suspense

    How do authors pull off the tricky balance of action and amore?

    October 5, 2020  By Irene Hannon
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