Genres
Why Horror Fiction Matters for Telling Indigenous Stories
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Iโve been consuming horror films and books from perhaps a too young age, though itโs worked out fine for me. Itโs been a formative genre for me as a…
16 Spooky Novellas by Women and Nonbinary Authors
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Whatย makes a spooky novella so satisfying? You might as well ask why a raven is like a writing desk. (The answer, of course, is that all three things remind…
Dann McDorman on Exploring Literary Hijinks and Meta Mystery
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While mysteries can usually be trusted to compel the reader within the first chapter or even the first few pages, itโs rare for them to hook us from the…
Finding Inspiration for Mystery Fiction in Soap Operas
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What JR, Alexis, and Domingue Taught this Mystery Writer One of the best compliments Iโve received from readers about the Lady Mystery series is that each mystery unfolds like…
James Reich on Indie Publishing, Taking Risks, and the Beauty of Melancholy
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In 2017, I read the novel Patricide, by D. Foy. Itโs a brutal and challenging book, full of ungodly sorrow and heartbreak. Itโs the kind of book you canโt…
How the Intensity of Female Relationships Leaves the Door Open for Horror
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Picture it: Woodstock, Georgia, 1988. Iโm at a sleepover party. Weโre eating pizza and watching The Amityville Horror and probably drinking Ecto Cooler and jumping around on Pogo Balls…
A Murder of Poets: Or, the Inescapable Connections Between Crime Fiction and Poetry
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ย โMurder will outโฆโ โGeoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ย Poetry and pathology. Verse and victim. Meter and murder and mayhem. Poetry and crime fiction seem to go together like,…
90s Horror-Thrillers Created a New Generation of Would-Be Detectives
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For two now-distant decades, horror movies were less about whodunit, and more about how-the-hell-do-they-stop-this-guy? In 1978, Halloween burst onto the scene, followed, two years later, by Friday the 13th….