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There Will be Blood: The Potent Blend of Westerns & Horror

"There are so many things about the frontier era or the wild west that lend themselves to horror and thriller stories."

We Inherit Our Ghosts: On Gothic Fiction and the Need to Remember

"The gothic as a genre is about the skeletons in the family’s closet."

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.

Templates, Not Fantasies: Complicated Final Girls and Why We Need Them

If we can see ourselves reflected in the Final Girl, we can learn from her how to survive

On Secret Societies, Dark Academia, and Blending the Real with the Unreal

Derek Millman was in the depths of writer's block when he received a binder detailing a year in one of Yale's secret societies.

I Come From a Long Line of Criminals

April Henry on successfully channeling family history and criminal tendencies into fiction.

Madeline Claire Franklin:
I'm Tired of Talking About Sexual Assault

"The news and world events repeatedly showed me that our world has not heard enough stories about SA, no matter how tired I was of thinking about it."

A Host of New YA Mysteries, Thrillers, and Horror Fiction

Young adult takes on classic tropes continue to be some of the most creative avenues of exploration in genre fiction

It's Always the Boyfriend: On Domestic Violence and Young Adult Fiction

How YA thrillers help us understand the high stakes of toxic relationships

5 YA Crime Fiction Reads With Magical Elements

Picks for readers who like their crime "with a speculative twist"

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