Suspense

Genetics, DNA, and A Difficult Question: Do We Ever Really Have Control Of Our Lives?

J. T. Ellison on her struggles to conceive and the long conflict between nature and nurture.

March 2, 2023  By J. T. Ellison
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Alex North On the Pleasures of Fictional Forbidden Texts

"It's a familiar and recurring motif in fiction: the search for a work of art that may or may not exist."

March 2, 2023  By Alex North
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Suspiciously Suspect: Who Is—and Isn't—an Unreliable Narrator?

Zoje Stage on the evolution of a sometimes uncomfortable term of art

March 1, 2023  By Zoje Stage
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Shop Talk: Brendan Slocumb Absolutely Does Not Listen to Music While He's Writing

Crime writers talk routine, revision, and what kind of background noise is right for the workday.

February 28, 2023  By Eli Cranor
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On Friendships as Catalysts

Without these fateful fictional meetings, the characters in these works might have behaved badly, but certainly not this badly...

February 28, 2023  By Harriet Tyce
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The Sisterhood of Serial Death

Women who kill (and kill again) were once rare in fiction. Not anymore.

February 24, 2023  By Misha Popp
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Without Shame: Female Writers on Female Psychopaths

Julia Bartz on the new wave of psychological thrillers

February 23, 2023  By Julia Bartz
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The Unsettling History of Serial Killers in Colorado

The rugged, mountainous state has a dark legacy.

February 22, 2023  By Leanne Kale Sparks
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The Best, Creepiest Old Houses in Fiction

Locked doors, secret passages, decrepit roofs, weird families, and so, so much more.

February 15, 2023  By M.E. Hilliard
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Why Does the Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death Still Haunt Us?

Few American writers have been read so widely for so long. And for many, Poe's death is inextricable from his fiction.

February 14, 2023  By Mark Dawidziak
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