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Highway to Hell: <br>The Comedy and Chaos of the Family Vacation

Highway to Hell:
The Comedy and Chaos of the Family Vacation

Seedy motels. Truck stop bathrooms. Cracker Barrel.

By Maureen Kilmer | September 19, 2024

Objectively Speaking: 6 Cursed Object Novels

Objectively Speaking: 6 Cursed Object Novels

Nightmare vehicles, frightening jewelry, and a dead man's suit

By Lamar Giles | September 17, 2024

Six Great Thrillers Where Bodies Are Hidden...

Six Great Thrillers Where Bodies Are Hidden...

...only to be uncovered later… moved to a new spot… or never found at all.

By Barbara Gayle Austin | September 17, 2024

Marcie Rendon On Writing About An Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Marcie Rendon On Writing About An Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Misogyny is an integral part of cultural erasure. Writing about the epidemic of MMIW must address this essential truth.

By Marcie Rendon | September 16, 2024

The Women Are There: Re-imagining Classic Adventure Novels

The Women Are There: Re-imagining Classic Adventure Novels

Steph Post on the role of women–and the potential for revision–in these classic books.

By Steph Post | September 16, 2024

There is Something Female About Being Dead: On Gender and Horror

There is Something Female About Being Dead: On Gender and Horror

"The problem is that horror’s understanding of gender is so extremely outdated."

By Logan-Ashley Kisner | September 12, 2024

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Justice for Lucy Westenrea

Justice for Lucy Westenrea

On reconsidering, and reimagining, one of the most mistreated characters in fiction

By Kiersten White | September 11, 2024

Kelsea Yu: Writing Chinese Food into My Stories

Kelsea Yu: Writing Chinese Food into My Stories

When Kelsea Yu's first thriller needed a safe haven, she knew it had to be a restaurant.

By Kelsea Yu | September 10, 2024

Why Vampires Are Back in Vogue

Why Vampires Are Back in Vogue

Rachel Harrison considers the endless possibilities of a genre that is "truly eternal"

By Rachel Harrison | September 10, 2024

Do We Stick Around after Death?

Do We Stick Around after Death?

What Personal Experience Has–and Hasn’t–Taught Me

By Beth Castrodale | September 10, 2024

Drugs and Distance: Taking on the Opioid Crisis in Thriller Form

Drugs and Distance: Taking on the Opioid Crisis in Thriller Form

Betsy Hartmann on finding the craft and the purpose.

By Betsy Hartmann | September 9, 2024

Four Gothic and Neo-Gothic Novels About Mothers

Four Gothic and Neo-Gothic Novels About Mothers

"Maternal figures not only propel Gothic plots but heighten their terror."

By Gail Lukasik | September 6, 2024

Are You the Scorpion or the Frog? Horror as Social Commentary

Are You the Scorpion or the Frog? Horror as Social Commentary

"[H]orror is drawn from our connections with each other, and makes us reconsider the roles we play in each other’s lives."

By Vincent Tirado | September 5, 2024

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