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From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts

From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts

"I realized something that was huge but also completely grounding: Whatever format it takes, a story is a story."

By Heather Hach | October 17, 2023

Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre Fiction

Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre Fiction

Mandy McHugh on learning craft from a pop icon.

By Mandy McHugh | October 17, 2023

The Existential Crisis of Home Invasions: A Reading List

The Existential Crisis of Home Invasions: A Reading List

Nolan Cubero explores a deep-seated fear, and the authors who have explored it best.

By Nolan Cubero | October 16, 2023

October's Best Psychological Thrillers

October's Best Psychological Thrillers

Searing social criticism, gothic romance, and plenty of family secrets.

By Molly Odintz | October 16, 2023

A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and History

A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and History

"Explaining the night, carving down the sum total of the experience into words is damaging—the easier it is to talk about, the less extraordinary it becomes."

By Nora Fussner | October 16, 2023

<em>Halloween</em> at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless

Halloween at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless

On the Many Masks of Michael Myers, from Unknowable Force of Nature to Explainable Antagonist

By Michael Kraus | October 13, 2023

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Black Horror Fiction Has Always Been Here. What's Changed Is The Attitudes of Gatekeepers.

By Molly Odintz | October 13, 2023

The Devil Made Me Do It

By Jennifer McMahon | October 12, 2023

Melissa Adelman and Nora Murphy On the Art of Suburban Suspense

By CrimeReads | October 12, 2023

The Mystery of Memory and Identity

The Mystery of Memory and Identity

Caitlin Starling on crafting a doppelgänger horror story around the idea of memory loss.

By Caitlin Starling | October 12, 2023

10 Years Later,

10 Years Later, "Prisoners" Eerily Predicted Our Current Moment

Revisiting Denis Villeneuve's bleak portrait of fear and fantasy

By Zack Budryk | October 11, 2023

How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the

How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the "Literary Thriller"

Jean Kwok asks authors how they approach reader and artistic demands.

By Jean Kwok | October 11, 2023

“A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

“A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

"Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."

By Sam Rebelein | October 10, 2023

America’s Obsession with Asylums

America’s Obsession with Asylums

Or, How Visiting an Abandoned Lunatic Asylum Laid the Foundation for a Young Adult Novel

By Tracy Hewitt Meyer | October 10, 2023

Writing Influences: A Cuban-Miami Identity & the Periphery of Santeria

Writing Influences: A Cuban-Miami Identity & the Periphery of Santeria

"I wanted to explore different ways this inherited power could be both a burden and a gift, and how often our diasporic heritage is built on silence."

By Vanessa Montalban | October 10, 2023

Learning to Love Thrillers and Their Morally Compromised Characters

Learning to Love Thrillers and Their Morally Compromised Characters

Tim Lane was a stay-at-home dad who found he needed thrillers about people pushed to extremes.

By Tim Lane | October 9, 2023

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