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Lisa Unger: Why Can’t I Go on Vacation Like a Normal Person?

Lisa Unger: Why Can’t I Go on Vacation Like a Normal Person?

"I’ve come to accept, truth be told, that my brain doesn’t like vacations...too much free time, endless dark possibilities."

By Lisa Unger | February 25, 2025

How Women Are Upending the Action Thriller

How Women Are Upending the Action Thriller

Gillian McAllister on the recalibration of high-octane thrillers.

By Gillian McAllister | February 25, 2025

Five Horror Short Stories That Would Make Killer Movies

Five Horror Short Stories That Would Make Killer Movies

Stories from Shirley Jackson, Tananarive Due, and more.

By Zack Budryk | February 21, 2025

Kat Dunn On Vampires, Desire, and Queering the Gothic

Kat Dunn On Vampires, Desire, and Queering the Gothic

The author of "Hungerstone" talks with Molly Odintz about her new take on Sheridan le Fanu's "Carmilla"

By Molly Odintz | February 20, 2025

Emily J. Smith Talks Technology, Dating, and Other Miseries of the Modern World

Emily J. Smith Talks Technology, Dating, and Other Miseries of the Modern World

Kate Brody interviews the debut novelist about her searing indictment of Silicon Valley and its intrinsic misogyny

By Kate Brody | February 19, 2025

What Happens When There's a Crime in Antarctica?

What Happens When There's a Crime in Antarctica?

R.S. Burnett on life and death in the polar extreme.

By R.S. Burnett | February 19, 2025

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How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century

How to Isolate Your Characters in the 21st Century

A mystery writer's guide to cutting your characters off from the world in believable ways.

By Laura McCluskey | February 13, 2025

The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', with Ashley Winstead

The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', with Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead and Polly Stewart discuss Atwood's sprawling, genre-hopping novel.

By Polly Stewart | February 13, 2025

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

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