• Suspense

    Eric Rickstad and Don Winslow on Suspense, Serial Killers, and Dismantling Pop Culture Myths

    Authors in conversation.

    April 10, 2025  By Don Winslow
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    Lost Grandeur: Decaying Settings in Fiction         

    "There’s just something about the feeling of a place that has been deeply neglected..."

    April 9, 2025  By C.J. Dotson
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    Three Kinds of Freak: Writing Heroes and Stories that Dismantle the Status Quo

    Zee Carlstrom on writing more interesting characters.

    April 9, 2025  By Zee Carlstrom
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    Belinda Bauer On Obsession, Greed, and the Dangerous World of Rare Egg Trafficking

    "[E]very word is fighting for space on the page and on the screen...I get in, I say what I need to, and I get out."

    April 9, 2025  By Jenny Bartoy
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    Molly Harper on Using Romantic Subplots to Help Characters Solve Mysteries

    "I can’t fathom writing a story that doesn’t have some romance element to it."

    April 8, 2025  By Molly Harper
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    10 Great Haunted House Novels Full of Atmosphere and Secrets

    Yigit Turhan on some of the eeriest novels ever written.

    April 8, 2025  By Yiğit Turhan
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    High Net Worth Victims: Why We Love our Murderees to be Filthy Rich

    "Killing the rich—in literature at least—appears to come with a built-in motive, one that likely implicates us all."

    April 7, 2025  By Matt Plass
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    How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

    Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

    April 4, 2025  By Grady Hendrix
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    Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Spring Reads!

    11 new and upcoming queer mysteries and thrillers to carry you through to summer

    April 3, 2025  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    Five Thrillers Where Mothers Fight For Their Children

    Sara Foster on the fruitful fictional possibilities of a mother's love put to the test

    April 3, 2025  By Sara Foster
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