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Femi Kayode Considers Groups, Belief Systems, and the Village of Readers

Femi Kayode Considers Groups, Belief Systems, and the Village of Readers

"I believe fiction can change the world by illustrating the danger of allowing mass think to overtake our individual decision making."

By Femi Kayode | December 5, 2023

Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

Five novels featuring teenage protagonists with complex relationships to the world around them

By Tessa Wegert | December 4, 2023

Parties Gone Wrong: A Beloved Trope in Crime Fiction

Parties Gone Wrong: A Beloved Trope in Crime Fiction

"There’s not a gathering in thrillers that doesn’t end up in total and utter carnage"

By Harriet Tyce | November 30, 2023

Horror for the Holidays, Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

Horror for the Holidays, Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

"[C]orruption of love and kindness is the real horror": so just eat your aunt's pie, okay?

By Erika Johansen | November 29, 2023

Books In Which Rich People (Think They Can) Get Away With Murder

Books In Which Rich People (Think They Can) Get Away With Murder

Charlotte Vassell with a list of "love-to-loathe antagonist[s]" and "wealthy miscreants"

By Charlotte Vassell | November 27, 2023

Brave Women in Mysterious Circumstances: A Reading List

Brave Women in Mysterious Circumstances: A Reading List

The more these characters find themselves doubted, the more strength they must draw from their own determination

By Christina Henry | November 22, 2023

Best Reviewed
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The Backlist: Alex Finlay and Polly Stewart Revisit 'I Am Pilgrim,' by Terry Hayes

By Polly Stewart | November 21, 2023

The Best Psychological Thrillers of November 2023

By Molly Odintz | November 21, 2023

Why New Zealand Noir?

By Nalini Singh | November 21, 2023

Five Books With Righteous Female Rage

Five Books With Righteous Female Rage

Exploring the Good for Her subgenre: a sampling of vigilantes, serial killers, and women who are just plain fed up.

By Katherine A. Olson | November 21, 2023

An Argument for the Unintentional Villain

An Argument for the Unintentional Villain

Or, how looking at accidental bad guys helps us understand our own risk of entering into moral grey areas.

By Lauren Nossett | November 15, 2023

Healing Through Horror

Healing Through Horror

On the surprising mental health benefits of a scary movie habit

By Preston Fassel | November 15, 2023

Love and Cannibalism: <br>Five Short Tales

Love and Cannibalism:
Five Short Tales

Devour these bite-sized morsels featuring those who hunger and their monstrous appetites

By Linda Cheng | November 13, 2023

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of <em>Yellowjackets</em>

What To Read While You're Waiting for the Next Season of Yellowjackets

Or, suspenseful novels to distract you from screaming "Who is pit girl?"

By Margot Harrison | November 13, 2023

Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson

Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson

Hand's new novel, 'A Haunting on the Hill,' is the first authorized continuation of Shirley Jackson's iconic work.

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 10, 2023

On Horror and Humanity’s Enduring Love Affair with Fear

On Horror and Humanity’s Enduring Love Affair with Fear

"Fear isolates what truly matters to us"

By Alexander James | November 9, 2023

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