• Suspense

    6 Crime and Horror Books Featuring Unusual Narrators

    Heather Chavez looks at stories told from the perspectives of wildfires, security cameras, animals, and more

    July 24, 2024  By Heather Chavez
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    Meta-Morphoses: Crafting a Book-Within-the-Book in a Thriller

    "[M]etafiction is a great tool for encouraging readers to question everything."

    July 24, 2024  By Lisa Kusel
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    Memory, Subjectivity, and the Rashomon Effect

    "Memory and perception are slippery things, and become all the more so when filtered back through the limitations of language."

    July 19, 2024  By Sarah Easter Collins
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    8 Thrillers and Horror Novels Set at Terrible Summer Camps

    These books will have you sending a postcard to your parents begging to come home early...

    July 19, 2024  By Molly Odintz
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    Psychological Thrillers In Which Houses Have Secrets Of Their Own

    To turn a home into a character, you must first give it something to hide.

    July 18, 2024  By Carinn Jade
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    Sarah Pearse On Crafting Atmospheric Suspense

    "To effectively evoke an intense sense of atmosphere, I need to have spent a lot of time in the setting myself"

    July 18, 2024  By Sarah Pearse
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    The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'

    Discussing Highsmith's classic of toxic suburbia

    July 17, 2024  By Polly Stewart
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    The Trees Did It: Five Novels Where Nature Gets Involved in the Crime

    Alisa Alering on what happens when the natural world gets "entangled in human crimes, blurring the lines between victim, accomplice, and perpetrator."

    July 17, 2024  By Alisa Alering
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    Destination Thrillers: The Lure of the Unknown

    Stephanie DeCarolis on novels that show us nowhere is safe, and "danger can find us even in the most beautiful places."

    July 16, 2024  By Stephanie DeCarolis
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    How Gore Vidal's 1968 Blockbuster Novel About a Trans Woman Took Aim at the Patriarchy

    Revisiting 'Myra Breckinridge'

    July 16, 2024  By David Masciotra
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