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How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

How One Author Turned Her Nightmares Into a Thriller

Kate Alice Marshall on dreams, memories, and what happens when the real world can't be trusted.

By Kate Alice Marshall | February 12, 2025

8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

8 Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories Worthy of Your Obsession

Let your imagination run wild with these bizarre, compelling, definitely-not-true celebrity rumors

By Margarita Montimore | February 12, 2025

10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

10 Modern Takes on Traditional Latin American Folktales

Vanessa Montalban considers the "generational patterns and themes that tie these ancient stories to our modern world."

By Vanessa Montalban | February 12, 2025

Why We Love to Read About Rich People Behaving Badly

Why We Love to Read About Rich People Behaving Badly

And why charming, sociopathic social climbers are the true heroes of our age of inequality

By Anna Sophia McLoughlin | February 11, 2025

Where Is Everybody?<br>A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

Where Is Everybody?
A Brief Survey of Isolation Horror in Film and Fiction

The greatest terror is reserved, not for death, but for a life alone

By Philip Fracassi | February 11, 2025

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Laughing at the Monster: Comedy in the Fear Genres

Ande Pliego on the power of humor in horror and thrillers.

By Ande Pliego | February 10, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Best International Fiction
of February 2025

By Molly Odintz | February 7, 2025

Conspiracy Theories and The Lure and Terror of Group-Think

By Alison Gaylin | February 6, 2025

5 Books Where Black Women Are Doing The Most

By Neena Viel | February 6, 2025

Gabino Iglesias: Let's Talk About Some New Books

Gabino Iglesias: Let's Talk About Some New Books

In his new column, Gabino Iglesias zeroes in on new books from Lisa Jewell, Alafair Burke, and Kevin Wade.

By Gabino Iglesias | February 4, 2025

Susan Barker: Why We Need Monstrous Women

Susan Barker: Why We Need Monstrous Women

"They exteriorize the parts of us we keep choked down inside...suppressed in order to function in society."

By Susan Barker | February 3, 2025

When the Dead Return: On Jamaica's Duppies

When the Dead Return: On Jamaica's Duppies

Trisha Tobias considers the comfort of vengeful spirits in the context of historical injustice

By Trisha Tobias | January 31, 2025

Susan Barker on the Nature of Evil, Female Villains, and the Drive to Make Art

Susan Barker on the Nature of Evil, Female Villains, and the Drive to Make Art

The author of 'Old Soul' discusses her new novel's dark journey.

By Morgan Leigh Davies | January 30, 2025

5 Novels With Tantalizing Anti-Heroes

5 Novels With Tantalizing Anti-Heroes

Taylor Hutton on the characters who make us occasionally root for the dark side.

By Taylor Hutton | January 30, 2025

5 Gripping Thrillers with Parents Searching for Missing Children

5 Gripping Thrillers with Parents Searching for Missing Children

Katie Garner on writing fiction mined from your deepest fears.

By Katie Garner | January 30, 2025

I’m an academic. Here’s why I wanted to write a dark academia thriller.

I’m an academic. Here’s why I wanted to write a dark academia thriller.

Liza North on the allure of the university mystery.

By Liza North | January 29, 2025

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